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.

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

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

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.

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.

My father left me with a saying that I've carried my entire life and tried to pass on to our kids: 'Tough times don't last, tough people do,'

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.