There comes a time when you have to stand up and be counted.

Athletes as role models and heroes is a hoax, a sick hoax. The men and women who are fighting in Iraq, they are the true heroes.

We must stop the trend of closing schools and building prisons.

I learned that if you want to make it bad enough, no matter how bad it is, you can make it.

Our young people look up to us. Let us not let them down. Our young people need us. Saving them will make heroes of us all.

People think I played 10 years. I played 68 ball games.

I have no idea what I did. I heard people talk about dead leg, shake, change of pace and all that, but I did things without thinking about them.