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I've got thick skin.
I loved fantasy role play.
I don't pitch for contracts.
I don't have a racist bone in my body.
I don't miss anything I did for a living.
I had a laptop when they weighed 10 pounds.
I am much more of a geek than I am an athlete.
Baseball is not a sport you can achieve individually.
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 did everything I could to win every time I was handed the ball.
I always believed God gave us the tools to take care of ourselves.
I don't vote party lines. Never have. I vote for the best candidate.
As much as I'd like to think I'm a really good designer, I'm average.
I've been playing games for 30 years, and I've been a hard-core gamer.
I was such a screwup when I got to the big leagues. I was a total idiot.
The money I saved during baseball was probably all gone. I'm tapped out.
I was raised to understand and know the difference between right and wrong.
I did all the stupid things you'd expect from a 21-year-old kid with money.
In baseball, I was always in control of everything until I let the ball go.
I don't have any problem with government helping entrepreneurs and businesses.
You could ask any position player and they'll tell you: pitchers aren't athletes.
I've helped create over 400 jobs in the worst economy of my lifetime. That's cool.
I came back after my surgery, throwing four to six miles harder than I did before.
On a two week road trip I know I can get by better with no underwear than no laptop.
Trust me, I have never written a speech in my life, and if I have my way, I never will.
War is by no means something glamorous, and I don't think that should ever be forgotten.
In this I-me society, my job is to get people to buy into something bigger than themselves.
I am human, when people write bad stuff about me it bothers me, but I know that will never end.
I think I've earned a certain level of respect, based on my accomplishments and my consistency.
Before I pitch any game, from spring training to Game 7 of the World Series, I'm scared to death.
There's not a long track record of people leaving professional sports to become a software developer.
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'm a good person. I don't wish hateful things on people. I don't hate anybody. I know that I treat people right.
More often than not, what you open, unwrap and install on your hard drive is not what you were told you were getting.
I had three jobs my junior and senior year of high school. I worked for the gas station and worked for a pizza place.
People love to say we get paid a lot of money to play a game, but it stopped being a game when you start getting paid.
Only a geek would say this, but my first true love was a game called 'Wizardry'; that was the game that hooked me forever.
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.
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.
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.
When you say you are a gamer and you are a celebrity or a former celebrity there's a grain of salt that everybody takes that with.
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.
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.
My whole life was spent doing things that people didn't believe were possible, because God blessed me with the ability to throw a baseball.
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.
When you're having a bad day at work, a lot of times it's your head. When you're having good days, a lot of times it's the absence of the mind.
I've always wanted to be the best in the world as a baseball player, so when I started to think about opening a business, it was with that mindset.
Every dollar I can't commit to my company that's paid in taxes is paying a government that I believe is too big and doing way too much that I don't want done.
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.