"The only thing I would change is during the summer - when I was working my summer job, if I was smart, I would have taken flying lessons at Auburn."

"Whenever I wasn't watching the planes, I was playing community baseball, football, or something like that."

"You have a lot of people on the run and really don't have time to sit down and eat a balanced meal."

"You practice Monday through Friday in college, or Monday through Saturday in the pro's - and then you just go out and knock somebody's head off."

"It occurred to me in my junior year of high school. I got my first letter from a big college. I still have that letter to this day - a letter from Indiana."

"I've always played with kids that were five, six, seven years older than me."

"I've taken up golf in the past five or six years, and most of the time there aren't too many people out there that can drive a ball further than I can."

"If I miss anything about the sport, it's the camaraderie of old teammates."

"If you have four years to complete your college education, do it."

"In baseball, I was a pitcher, which I hated because there was no action there."

"My favorite driver is always either the bad guy or the underdog."

"My workout was running down fly balls, stealing a base, or running for my life on the football field."

"Really, it's not harder to train for them because once baseball starts you play everyday almost."

"So, baseball is probably more physical of the two mentally."

"So, I got a lot of recruitment letters from track."

"I am a firm believer in if you can't get it the old fashioned way, you don't need it."

"I guarantee you that's what Jeff Gordon does. He uses everything the fans throw at him to stoke his fire and it drives him to be better at what he does."

"I hate to blow my own horn, but I gave a lot of people fits."

"I have been a fan all my life, but now I have been out of football for over 10 years, and out of baseball for a little over six years and I don't go to games."

"I have no problem with my hips - I can still do the things that I used to do. I can run, I'm just not the fastest person on the field anymore."

"I love going out and doing new things."

"I was a pitcher, shortstop and outfielder, and the Yankees tried to sign me out of high school as a first-round draft pick in 1981. I turned them down to go to college."

"I was always active - I went from baseball to football. I didn't have time to work out."

"I was the type of guy that used to get up in the morning and go out and just out run everybody on the field without stretching or warming up or anything."

"I would say my greatest achievement in life right now - my greatest achievement period is - and I'm still trying to achieve it - is to be a wonderful father to my kids."

"Set your goals high, and don't stop till you get there."

"So you have to be more mentally focused in baseball."

"As a 9th grader, I competed with the high school kids and out of 600 people, I finished 10th."

"Back before I injured my hip, I thought going to the gym was for wimps."

"Being the 8th out of 10 kids, and being the one that stayed in trouble, I sort of became a momma's boy."

"But now in this day and age, people are more prone to go out to try new things to enhance their performance on the field - to enhance their physical appearance."

"Don't sell yourself short because without that you can't go far in life because after sports the only thing you know is sports and you can't do anything else with that."

"First of all, I really never imagined myself being a professional athlete."

"I also tell them that your education can take you way farther than a football, baseball, track, or basketball will - that's just the bottom line."

"I always wanted to be a pilot."

"Suspicion is the companion of mean souls, and the bane of all good society"

"The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it NOW deserves the love and thanks of man and woman."

"The final event to himself has been, that as he rose like a rocket, he fell like the stick."

"A man does not serve God when he prays, for it is himself he is trying to serve"

"[The Hits 1789-'97 George Washington was serenaded with new words to] God Save the King ... I don't know whether you have abandoned your old principles or whether you ever had any."

"We fight not to enslave, but to set a country free, and to make room upon the earth for honest men to live in."

"It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing or in disbelieving; it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe."

"The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheaply, we esteem too lightly; 'Tis dearness only that gives everything its value."

"There are two distinct classes of what are called thoughts: those that we produce in ourselves by reflection and the act of thinking, and those that bolt into the mind of their own accord"

"All the tales of miracles, with which the Old and New Testament are filled, are fit only for impostors to preach and fools to believe"

"A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason."

"He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression;for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself."

"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it."

"Everything that is right or natural pleads for separation. The blood of the slain, the weeping voice of nature cries, 'Tis time to part."

"Those who want to reap the benefits of this great nation must bear the fatigue of supporting it."