For Christmas every year, my mother used to give me those cheap little diaries that would tell your horoscope and provide a little blank slot for each day.

Challenges give me a kick. The day I stop getting challenges, I would quit.

Just give me 25 guys on the last year of their contracts; I'll win a pennant every year.

My mother would give my brothers and me a pile of catalogues and let us pick what we wanted for Christmas.

My daughter is one of my greatest inspirations. She's an environmentalist, she plays piano, she's raising money for the earthquake victims in Nepal. Every day she surprises me and teaches me something.

Give me a 15-ft. crocodile any day over a bee.