Your first obligation, I suppose, is to your God. Your second is to your family. And your third is to your community. And you ought to try to fulfill all of those in your life.

You have an obligation to yourself and your family to haul ass and get out of here, and I'm telling you to get out now,

The two months that I'm in Spring Training is tough. The family obligation weighed heavily. We spent a lot of time talking about that. The truth of the matter is during spring, I'm at the ballpark the majority of days for 12, 15 hours. I wouldn't get a whole lot of time with them.

Those who have prospered and profited from life's lottery have a moral obligation to share their good fortune

It's worse than I thought going in. The state of Colorado has a moral, if not legal, obligation to bail this thing out, and this problem is not going to fix itself. (PERA) is absolutely in denial over the future burden they're building in for future taxpayers.

Some families are an odd melting pot of strangers with the occasional offering of obligation.