Athlete

So every dollar of income that I have that is potentially taxed away is a dollar I can't put in my company to create a job. My entire company is around job creation.

Only a geek would say this, but my first true love was a game called 'Wizardry'; that was the game that hooked me forever.

I don't miss anything I did for a living.

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.

I'm a Republican. I'm a former Red Sox. I have a nasty habit of talking - a lot - about anything anyone asks me and totally unconcerned about giving you my opinion. You will never question where I stand - right or wrong, agree or disagree - on anything.

I'm a good person. I don't wish hateful things on people. I don't hate anybody. I know that I treat people right.

'Reckoning' will be the first game of its kind. They've taken that 'God of War'-style combat and placed it in a truly open world with hundreds of hours of gameplay. You can do whatever it is you want to do. What path you take, what role you choose, what trail you blaze - there's meaning and depth and substance in the world.

I loved fantasy role play.

I am much more of a geek than I am an athlete.

In this I-me society, my job is to get people to buy into something bigger than themselves.

I was such a screwup when I got to the big leagues. I was a total idiot.

People love to say we get paid a lot of money to play a game, but it stopped being a game when you start getting paid.

I don't vote party lines. Never have. I vote for the best candidate.

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.

I don't pitch for contracts.

I've always wanted to be the best in the world as a baseball player, so when I started to think about opening a business, it was with that mindset.

On a two week road trip I know I can get by better with no underwear than no laptop.

The God-given ability that you're given to use, it speaks as much about who and what I was and was around, and the crowd of people that I chose to live my life with, as it does about me.

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

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.