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

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" In my 20 years of baseball, I've been misquoted three or four times, and for someone who talks as much as I do, that's incredible. "

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" I'm loud. I talk too much; I think I know more than I do - those and a billion other issues I know I have. "

" I had three jobs my junior and senior year of high school. I worked for the gas station and worked for a pizza place. "

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" Before I pitch any game, from spring training to Game 7 of the World Series, I'm scared to death. "

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" Some of the most racist things that I've ever heard come out of people that are on the air at ESPN. There are some of the biggest racists in sports commentating, and you take it for what it is. "

" In this I-me society, my job is to get people to buy into something bigger than themselves. "

" If you think about a lifestyle short of retirement that lends itself to being a hardcore gamer, there is none better than being a major league starting pitcher. I work once every five days and travel and am alone all the time. So while the other guys were spending their money on the all the cars and jewelry, I bought laptops. "

" So every dollar of income that I have that is potentially taxed away is a dollar I can't put in my company to create a job. My entire company is around job creation. "

" One of the walls of my bedroom was a collage of about 15 years of baseball photos. I would cut out the baseball pictures from every issue and I had this huge montage of thousands of pictures. "

" I've helped create over 400 jobs in the worst economy of my lifetime. That's cool. "

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

" I always believed God gave us the tools to take care of ourselves. "

" 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'm a very routine-oriented guy. "

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" I'm a Republican. I'm a former Red Sox. I have a nasty habit of talking - a lot - about anything anyone asks me and totally unconcerned about giving you my opinion. You will never question where I stand - right or wrong, agree or disagree - on anything. "

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

" 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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" I tell people all the time that without the fans, I've got nothing. "

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