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" In my mind, I never doubted whether I was going to achieve what I wanted to do. I just had to decide what it is I wanted to do. "

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" I care what people think, but that doesn't change what I say. I am who I am. "

" Have I said dumb things? Absolutely, who hasn't? But I have never backed away from being called out on something I did or said wrong. "

" Trust me, I have never written a speech in my life, and if I have my way, I never will. "

" I've got thick skin. "

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" The only thing I hope I did was never put in question my love for the game, or my passion to be counted on when it mattered most. "

" I've made mistakes, I've misspoke, I am sure I will again sometime, but that happens, that's part of being human in my book. I'm OK with that. I've never done it maliciously, ever. "

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" There's not a long track record of people leaving professional sports to become a software developer. "

" I took a shot and tried to create something world changing and it didn't work out. I gave it everything I had, literally, and now I'm just trying to manage day by day and it's been challenging but my wife and my kids are healthy, and I'm OK. "

" I played on teams with 24 guys pulling the rope one way and one guy pulling the other. I've seen how destructive it can be. I tell them, 'If 13 of you are insanely successful and one fails, we all lose.' "

" I've got a wife, four kids, a business, and a baseball career. "

" Most guys who don't like me are either Democrats or Yankee fans. "

" I am human, when people write bad stuff about me it bothers me, but I know that will never end. "

" I wanted to create jobs and create something that had a very longstanding world-changing effect. We were close. We were close to getting there. It just fell apart. "

" I've been able to do what I love and what I'm passionate about my entire life. I made, you know, an insane amount of money playing baseball. "

" I am much more of a geek than I am an athlete. "

" I've been called a lot of things. But never, and I mean never, could anyone ever make the mistake of calling me a Yankee fan. "

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" I've had teammates I didn't get along with, who hasn't? I've never had a teammate call me a bad guy, while he was my teammate, and if he did when I was gone what kind of teammate was he anyway? "

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