"After the first day of practice, there's not one guy who's playing at 100 percent or who feels great. Sometimes, getting up in the morning and brushing your teeth is the hardest part of the day - it just hurts."

"My sisters like cooking at my place. It has a bit more room, and the food tastes a little bit better. A big pot of spaghetti and sauce, some warm French bread - works all the time. I think I've been eating pasta for 26 years."

"When you have two busy kids running around the house, returning e-mails is a task, let alone surfing the web."

"We all have experiences in our lives that change us, and we all learn from people, like my dad, but at the end of the day, it's only us. And we're only responsible to make ourselves happy."

"Clear thinking requires courage even more than intellect."

"My whole life I've had the fear that I was going to be abandoned."

"When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. When the government fears the people, there is liberty."

"The destroyer Cork, like the useful hero for whom it is named, will be game to the last."