“I remember when I retired, to be honest I didn't know what to do with ...” — Manny Ramirez Quote

“I remember when I retired, to be honest I didn't know what to do with my time. And that's hard. That's something very hard. We are so young and we got so much power and so much fame. You think you can do whatever you want, but there are consequences. You get knocked down and you say, 'What's going on here?' But then I started going to church.”

“I think Shohei Ohtani is worth $500 million. He's a phenomenon never seen before in the MLB history. He can do it all.”

“A bunch of guys are going to look at me and say hey, this guy made a mistake but he didn't quit.”

“Truth in our society often takes a back seat to securing gainful consequences.”

“What happened with Hurricane Katrina was the American electorate was forced to look at what lay behind the veneer of chest-beating. We all saw the consequences of having terrible government leadership.”

“When I was an impoverished graduate student, I would sometimes spend $20 or $30 on a T-shirt or accessory I didn't need or even particularly want. What I craved was the purchase, not the thing itself. Of course, a sense of not being deprived may fill an emotional void without ruinous consequences.”