I grew up in baseball, so I know how hard it is to not have a dad around to see sporting events and stuff like that.

No one is perfect. Your ERA is not zero. You're not going to have 30 wins. And your batting average isn't going to be 1.000. So you don't have the right to verbally talk out about somebody. Look at yourself. Did you do everything you could do? Did you start your day off right? Are you perfect?

My dad hit 152 home runs and that's the person I wanted to be like. My hero growing up.

Everyone should live where they want.

I'm not a player who beats his own drum.

It doesn't bother me that I didn't get all the recognition. It really doesn't. I tried to keep things as honest as possible. People will either appreciate it over the years or they won't.

I'm not some person who wants to be treated as a superstar and won't go out and help the team.

I got to play with my dad. I got to go to work with him. That's the biggest thing that ever happened to me other than the days my kids were born. That's bigger than any record I'll ever set.

I get a little tired of people telling me what might have been. I think I've done OK. I don't dwell on what might have been.

I've been swinging the same way since I was born. It's always worked.

It seemed like my father and I were always fighting. I know a lot of kids go through that with their families, but it was hard for me.

I can't help it if I make things look easy that some people think are difficult.

That's the best thing about playing defense. I get to see somebody else but myself get mad.

If baseball was all year round, I'd play all year round.

I've always been an Earnhardt family fan.

Athletes are going to tease each other. Football players want to be baseball players. Baseball players want to be football players. Basketball players want to be baseball players, and vice versa.

Nobody wants to win a game on a bad call.

We teach our kids to be fair and things like that and if you make a mistake you apologize for it.

I'm really not comfortable doing interviews in a group, in press conferences. One-on-one, I'm all right, but those press conferences at the All-Star Game, I just don't... I feel better when I'm by myself.

You play the game a certain way, and people think your personality off the field should be just as electrifying. That's not the case.

My dad wasn't a power hitter, and I didn't think I'd be a power hitter because the person I wanted to be like was him, and he was the one that taught me to play the game.

Anybody can be a dad. I just want to be a good parent. I want to be a dad that my kids can talk to. I want to have a relationship with them.

I know if I do something wrong, it's going to be all over the news.

You can't sensationalize a story that is a heartfelt story.

There's certain people that you owe it to, for the things they've done for you.

I may not hit 50, 40 or 30 home runs, but I can do the little things like moving runners over that don't show up in the box score.

Father and son games - that was the best day. We'd be dressed at 6 o'clock in the morning. The game would be at 7 o'clock at night... And we'd play at, like, 5.

All my life in professional baseball, people said 'He could be better.'

Kids always think about being the MVP.

I go out there every day, take early batting practice, fly balls.

I just mind my business and do what I have to do to get ready for the baseball season.

I'm lucky. I got a chance to play major-league baseball.

I've always wanted to be on a winning team, be competitive and have something to shoot for in October. It's never been a money situation.

Hard work doesn't start during the game. Hard work starts the night before.

I want to be the best player I can be.

I like to see my name in the box score.

If you hit .200 and you win or .300 and you win, it's all the same. Just so you win.

I'll never be that guy who's going to yell and scream at people.

If voting changed anything, they'd abolish it.

Global warming could be solved by shifting three to four per cent of global GDP to pay for it.

I spent the 1960s and 1970s seeking myself - the working-class tradition of self-education.

I think it's much more important to keep people in work than have pay rises.

I've always been a workaholic. I reckon, on average, I've had less than one day a year off in my working career.

I'm an emotional person; I do occasionally shed a tear.

The world is run by monsters and you have to deal with them. Some of them run countries, some of them run banks, some of them run news corporations.

I do explicitly see Jewish people as a people - not either a religion or an ethnicity but a people.

The best way to demonstrate the values of a western democracy is you put Osama bin Laden on trial; you challenge what he says.

I have only ever borrowed money for investment. I have been sound money all my life.

If women had never been given the right to vote, then Labour would have won every election after the war.

I am a socialist, a believer in rational thought and the rule of law.