| | "Acting was something that just came along. But I made good money, so it wasn't something I was just going to put aside and pretend it didn't exist." |
| | "Even if I was just playing golf by myself and having a really good round, or if I could break my personal best, that moment would become just as meaningful to me as anything else." |
| | "Everyone in baseball knew me from baseball. They didn't understand what I was doing with the acting thing." |
| | "For guys playing sports at a high level, for money, I can't put my finger on it, but in a man's world of sport, there is something visceral to beating another man." |
| | "Go to work every day and remember the reason you like this is because you enjoy the challenge of it, and you want to do well." |
| | "How many music critics do you know that know anything about music? Probably not very many, but they have their personal opinions." |
| | "Human beings, from their own point of view, are very different than what people see." |
| | "I always look forward to working with Goldie because she's a great person to work with." |
| | "I can evaluate a player in a very short period of time because I'm very close to that game, very educated in that game and played the game for a long, long time. I wasn't just a guy with talent. I learned a lot about the game." |
| | "I discovered that Captain Ron and Overboard are the two tapes everybody has to have on their boat!" |
| | "I do get cynical, but what can you do? It doesn't make any difference." |
| | "I don't really look for specific types of projects any more. I'm not taking care of a career anymore. I'm just having fun acting." |
| | "I got a kick out of the stands when they would heckle me. I would take the energy from that." |
| | "I just sit around while they change their minds. It's a very difficult business, and marketing movies is not part of my world." |
| | "I know I come off differently than I think of myself. I'm always surprised by what people say about me." |
| | "I no longer look at my life and times in the motion picture industry as my career. I just look at it now as something I like and want to do." |
| | "I played professional level sports. When you're playing for money, it's a whole other level." |
| | "I seem to have a knack for picking movies that go on to be cult favorites." |
| | "I started playing ball when I was a kid. My dad was a pro ball player and he passed on his knowledge to me." |
| | "I understand a lot of people don't care for sports that much, but it shows just how hard somebody is going after something." |
| | "I used to throw batting practice a lot, and with some injuries on the team, I was playing all the time, which I hadn't been earlier." |
| | "I usually hang out on the set. I get to know everybody. I have a nice time with the other actors." |
| | "I was brought up by two people who just said, Whatever it is you're interested in, go do it. There is no winning or losing. You find out when you do it what the experience is." |
| | "I wasn't really serious about acting-I was serious about baseball." |
| | "I've never looked at my career in terms of, What haven't I done that I want to do? I just generally find a story that I think is a good one and go to work." |
| | "If I see one side of somebody, I want to see the other side." |
| | "If it hadn't been for the videocassette, I may not have had a career at all." |
| | "If they're willing to pay you what you think you're worth for it, that's why an actor goes to work. A lot of times they want to pay you a lot for a picture you don't want to do." |
| | "If you want to laugh, see Slap Shot. If you want to be inspired, see our movie, Miracle." |
| | "It's interesting to examine someone's life who is taking a step into hell and is either going to continue to descend or somehow try to walk out of it." |
| | "Movies I've done which are some of my favorites, sometimes people won't talk about them at all." |
| | "My Dad was a ball player and an actor, and I was a ball player and an actor. I saw his world, and I liked that he enjoyed it." |
| | "My first year of pro ball I played in the Northwest league and made the all-star team, and the next year I played I led the team in hitting and was third or fifth in the league." |
| | "My job is to make the movie. There's no reason to consult me." |
| | "People think, because of the movies I've done, that I'm a lot more macho. I think I'm sort of happy-go-lucky." |
| | "Projects happen and they don't. When you see something that you think for a number of reasons is the right thing to do, you go to work." |
| | "Society questions the police and their methods, and the police say, Do you want the criminals off the street or not?" |
| | "The crime rates are going up, houses are being robbed, people are being killed, drugs on the street are rapid and worse." |
| | "The minute you see someone, you have your sort of vision of what they appear to you as. That may not be how they think of themselves." |
| | "There's no doubt at all what I want to be to my grandkids. It's pretty great. It's a lot of fun." |
| | "These guys are it. It's a long way from Mighty Ducks." |
| | "We all do that thing which is the best in movies-we relate." |
| | "We are in a democratic society. It's our job to question." |
| | "When I was working on my career, I was very aware of what I had done, what I wanted to do next. I'm having a good time just reading things that might be interesting to do." |
| | "When you first are in front of the camera as a young person, you'd be surprised at all the insecurities you can get." |
| | "When you lose a double overtime game, it hurts. You know the effort they put in and you know how badly they want it." |
| | "When you think you're good, you will play at that level. If you doubt yourself, you will play like crap." |
| | "When you're inside my skin and you walk down the street, you'd be surprised at what people like and don't like." |
| | "You can talk about golf, pool, basketball, hockey, baseball, doesn't matter. A locker room is a locker room, egos are egos." |
| | "You must make your life's work about that-it's not about what people think of it, how people evaluate it. It's about the work, just whatever it is." |
| | "You will always have criminals. People will always do illegal things and you are always going to have to deal with it." |
| | "You're trying to recreate reality, you're inventing. It's like painting, it's fun. " |