Then there's Johnny Pesky, hit me countless number of ground balls and improved my fielding so much.

This journey started about 42 years ago in a little town of Brunswick, Georgia.

I have a message for the young kids. Life is about obstacles, endeavors in life are not to be overlooked.

Humbled by the fact that never in a million years would I ever thought that I would be on the same stage with all these great Hall of Famers and enshrined to the National Baseball Hall of Fame.

I didn't get over 1300 walks without knowing the strike zone.

One guy that I wish was here right now, Ted Williams, helped me so much, our long talks, not about hitting but about fishing, one of Ted's passions, and I wish he was here today to share this with me because I owe so much to Ted Williams.

Anyone can be a father, but it takes someone special to be a dad, and that's why I call you dad, because you are so special to me. You taught me the game and you taught me how to play it right.

Then there's Johnny Pesky, hit me countless number of ground balls and improved my fielding so much.

In life, so many things are taken for granted, but one thing I can honestly say is that I took every day, enjoyed the game of putting on that uniform and playing the great game of baseball.

Looking back on those days and little leaguer, the Hall of Fame is not even a blinking star, but through baseball travels and moving up the ladder, that star begins to flicker.

A positive attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts, events and outcomes. It is a catalyst and it sparks extraordinary results.

My God... What are the headlines going to be like on Monday if the Yankees don't make the playoffs?

Our lives are not determined by what happens to us but how we react to what happens, not by what life brings us but the attitude we bring to life.

I played the game one way. I gave it everything I had. It doesn't take any ability to hustle.

The owner of the New York Yankees, Mr. George Steinbrenner who I had the greatest respect for, I want to thank him for giving me the opportunity to win that special ring in 1996.

A positive attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts, events, and outcomes. It is a catalyst, and it sparks extraordinary results.

You taught me the game and you taught me how to play it right.

Anyone can be a father but it takes someone special to be a dad and that's why I call you dad because you are so special to me.

Anyone can be a father but it takes someone special to be a dad and thats why I call you dad because you are so special to me. You taught me the game and you taught me how to play it right.

I played the game one way. I gave it everything I had. It doesnt take any ability to hustle.

For a lot of kids, reading is not magical. It's really hard work.

In the Old Testament, we are continually told that our good works are not enough, that God has made a provision. This provision is pointed to at every place in the Old Testament.

I call it the 'House of Reprehensibles.' We don't have any real political resistance to this growth of the domestic state across the board. So I'm much more focused on that than on the Patriot Act, which is a real effort, however inept, to deal with a real problem.

Many of us in the jockeys' room are wasting to ride many pounds below our natural weight, but all the while you are doing that, you also want to ensure that you are as strong as possible so that you can give your mount every possible chance in a race.

I have been a firm believer in the federal structure of our country as enshrined in the Constitution.

Elections belong to the people. Its their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds then they will just have to sit on their blisters.

Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?

I love going on tour and playing music for people.

A sleepy mans eyes generally go to bed some time before he does.

I'm very proud that 40 sheriffs have endorsed me.

You have got to boss scrums. The players need to know what you want them to adhere to. Then it is up to them to decide whether they are adhering to that or not.

Characters are often revealed by the ways they misapprehend others.

When we came out with 'Lazy Sunday,' the greatest compliment I heard was that Questlove had it on his iPod.

'A great British icon' is not the phrase I'd use about anybody, but there are people you admire that happen to be British. I think it's a phrase that gets attached to anyone who's been around long enough to become overfamiliar.

I was writing blogs before work, then I was writing at work, and then I started writing books on the weekend because you just have that sort of energy in your 20s; it's wonderful.

I believe with my sage and epigrammatic friend P. J. O'Rourke that a government big enough to give you everything you want is also big enough to take it all away.

It means that through knowledge have come responsibility and hope, and through both, action.

Winning at Monaco feels unbelievable, because it's such a special race and it's also my home race. My first memories were of watching Ayrton Senna here with his yellow helmet, and one day dreaming to win the Monaco GP.

We pulled out of Libya. Now look what's happened: a safe haven, a vacuum, ISIS training militants to hit in Tunisia.

I'm a television junkie.

I grew up watching wrestling.

Create a vision for the life you really want and then work relentlessly towards making it a reality.

Greed is a fat demon with a small mouth and whatever you feed it is never enough.

Think your own thoughts.