I like the ball in a big game. I'm not afraid to take it.

I blame myself more so because I hung a curve. If you want to point a finger, point it at me.

We had a pretty good lead, so why push it.

To pitch a perfect game wearing pinstripes at Yankee Stadium, it's unbelievable. Growing up a Yankee fan, to come out here and make history, it really is a dream come true.

I'm not making any excuses. I got my butt kicked in certain games.

I drank beer, and I had a career year.

I like the ball in a big game. I'm not afraid to take it.

If you are going to point a finger, you point it at me.

I would have liked the old days.

That's me, I'm emotional.

I'm feeling pretty good right now, but I hope we can just win the whole thing and I can run off into the sunset and say good-bye.

The money is great, no way am I complaining.

I'm not going to make any excuses. I just went out and stunk it up tonight.

In my whole career, I've never seen this type of race that you had to wait for the last day. There's so many teams that are involved. You've got to smile because we're in it.

I'm not even close to those guys, but I don't think anyone loves the game more than me.

The game has changed. What's going on now is nonsense. You have guys complaining about not being paid.

There are guys in the game only because of steroids. They couldn't make it with their natural talent, so they had to enhance themselves. It sucks.

I'm not going to sit here and bash the manager, we have to regroup.

We live in a day when it is very easy to make converts very hard to make disciples.

It's easy to get distracted and procrastinate sometimes, but you can make it happen.

Memory likes to play hide-and-seek, to crawl away. It tends to hold forth, to dress up, often needlessly. Memory contradicts itself; pedant that it is, it will have its way.

I had some adventures at the White House, but hardly enough to fill a full memoir.

When there's an authentic mystery, as opposed to just a question being asked, that's what makes you lean forward.

You can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.

All over the world I'm known. Whenever I go out on the street people come up to me and say... 'Hi, Beave,' and that doesn't bother me at all. It's something that I embrace.

Costumes say a lot about a character. When it came to 'Palo Alto,' it was important for me that the kids didn't look perfect. In most teen movies today, all of the clothes are expensive. I remember wearing a lot of dirty vintage clothes.

I think of a band like Animal Collective where they really follow their own sound and I think that's a really important thing to do. You can find an audience if you can find your voice.

Georgia is not just a European country but one of the most ancient European countries.

The funny thing about having all this so called success is that behind it is a certain horrible emptiness.

Misconceptions about Young Adult fiction aren't new to fans of the genre. From being dismissed as mindless fluff for 'Twilight'-obsessed tweens, to constant warnings that the genre is dying, kerfuffles between the media and readers occur with alarming regularity.

Men need knowledge in order to overpower their passions and master their prejudices.

Costa Rica and Germany have simply been pawns in the Japanese quest to silence Sea Shepherd in an attempt to stop our annual opposition of their illegal whaling activities.

God gave us dreams, but he gave us kids to make all those dreams worthwhile. And when I look at all my kids, I say everything that I've ever went through in my life was worthwhile.

That's sort of what I felt... I miss drinking, I thought bars were truly holy places.

There is something inherently valuable about being a misfit. It's not to say that every person who has artistic talent was a social outcast, but there is definitely a value for identifying yourself differently and being proud that you are different.

The native music of North America, the original-roots music of this country, is also the underworld music of this country.

I love myself and treat myself with kindness.

If you don't want to do your job as a U.S. Senator, then please resign your seat and stop taking taxpayer money for a job you're not doing anymore.

It's a lot easier to act when the writing is good. Nothing is more frustrating than trying to figure out 'Well, why did I say this next?'

One good husband is worth two good wives for the scarcer things are the more they are valued.

The cake had a trick candle that wouldnt go out so I didnt get my wish. Which was just that it would always be like this that my life could be a party just for me.

From the age of eighteen to twenty-one, I worked any job I could get my hands on. One of these jobs was selling fake paintings door-to-door.

Playing Sgt, Trotter in 'The Mousetrap' is the same as playing Scripps in 'The History Boys,' in the sense that they're dream roles that I've always wanted to do. The fact they're letting me do this professionally and I'm getting paid for it, I find astonishing.