Quotes

The Cubs gave me a chance to play. They signed me as a free agent and brought me to the Major Leagues. The first day I walked into Wrigley Field was one of the best days of my life. And I owe them an awful lot.

The three most important pitches I threw in my life were all fastballs.

I enjoy being out with the fans, I enjoy talking baseball, but to get up and tell my life story... I'm not comfortable doing that.

Well, my life is so centered around the people I care about, my animals, and my work.

I've always been shy and that's partly why I chose a life behind the lens. I like people to look at my work and hopefully it speaks for itself.

It's so easy to get caught up in the demands of life. And we all take refuge at times in routines and recliners and 'usual' anything!

Not everybody is going to agree with your dream. I'm sure you've had border bullies in your life as you moved into your career. And what we don't want to do is focus upon them.

I'm really just a regular guy who has had an incredibly blessed life.

If you take guns away from legal gun owners, then the only people who would have guns would be the bad guys. Even a pacifist would get violent if someone were trying to kill him or her. You would fight for your life, whatever your beliefs.

When you think about where are you going to find that big love of your life, you seldom think it's someone you already know. You think it's someone you're yet to meet.

I mean, look, I wear makeup in films. I don't wear makeup in real life. It's just part of the gig, that's all.

Art imitates life and, sometimes, life imitates art. It's a weird combination of elements.

I tell my staff, 'Give me your best, and then go home and live your life.' I've never asked anyone to work harder, but I've told plenty that they needed rest.

To sum it all up, the objective of my life has been to give work a moral and economic dignity.

I had a very simple life growing up in the farm country outside of Perugia, and biscotti and warm milk with a tiny bit of coffee were a big part of my morning ritual before walking to school.

I want to win every time, this mentality will be with me for the rest of my life.

I tend to identify with my roles to such an extent that I appear to be totally convinced about certain statements that, in real life, I would never believe in.

In some way I became an angel, and who except me has experienced that in his lifetime?

When I've had hard times in my life, the one thing about being in TV is that it's positive. I withdrew to 'Cheers,' it was familiar in that it was family. It had a kind of realistic positiveness to it.

Someone told me something that stuck with me: 'You have to envision your life, and then go backwards.' I've been living by that motto for a while, so I see where I need to be. Now I'm just backtracking and trying to get back up there.

I think I don't take myself too seriously. You know as far as, it's a fun life. I take my music serious, but I like to have fun.

An inborn tendency toward science turning it into a lifelong commitment.

In America they like my spicy TV alter ego, probably because there were a lot of Italians and Hispanics in the country, but the real L.A. life is a hard-working one.

It is glorious to become a learner again at my time of life.

Trying to manage diabetes is hard because if you don't, there are consequences you'll have to deal with later in life.