“As much as I'd like to think I'm a really good designer, I'm average.”

“Baseball is not a sport you can achieve individually.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

“I am much more of a geek than I am an athlete.”

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

“I did everything I could to win every time I was handed the ball.”

“I don't have any problem with government helping entrepreneurs and businesses.”

“I don't hide my feelings, but when it comes to illness, I guess I don't panic. My father was the same way. I'm the provider for the family and the caretaker. If I panic, who is anybody going to run to?”

“I don't miss anything I did for a living.”

“I don't pitch for contracts.”

“I don't vote party lines. Never have. I vote for the best candidate.”

“I had the perfect job for a gamer. From February to October, I'd get up at 7 in the morning with nothing to do but play games until I had to be at the park around 1 or 2 o'clock. When I got back after the game, I played until 3 or 4 in the morning.”

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

“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 think I've earned a certain level of respect, based on my accomplishments and my consistency.”

“I wanted to create a multibillion dollar company that lets me go out and let us go out and change the world and create a Skin Cancer Awareness Center that costs a quarter a billion dollars.”

“I was raised to understand and know the difference between right and wrong.”

“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.”

“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'm a very routine-oriented guy.”

“In baseball, I was always in control of everything until I let the ball go.”

“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.”

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

“It is all about rehab. Most doctors can make you 100 percent well physically. I would tell you that it is 25 percent about the surgery and 75 percent about the rehab.”

“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.”

“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.”

“I've been playing games for 30 years, and I've been a hard-core gamer.”

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

“I've got thick skin.”

“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?”

“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.”

“More often than not, what you open, unwrap and install on your hard drive is not what you were told you were getting.”

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

“On a two week road trip I know I can get by better with no underwear than no laptop.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Short of baseball and my family, it was gaming. And gaming is a USD20-million to USD200-million multi-year effort. It's an insane, stupid and utterly irresponsible act. But I did it.”

“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.”

“The game was here long before I was, and will be here long after I'm gone.”

“The God-given ability that you're given to use, it speaks as much about who and what I was and was around, and the crowd of people that I chose to live my life with, as it does about me.”

“The money I saved during baseball was probably all gone. I'm tapped out.”

“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.”

“The things I was allowed to experience, the people I was able to call friends, teammates, mentors, coaches and opponents, the travel, all of it, are far more than anything I ever thought possible in my lifetime.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“You could ask any position player and they'll tell you: pitchers aren't athletes.”