Jim Thome

You always want to get at-bats. You always want to contribute.

My dad told me when I went into high school, 'It's not what you do when you walk in the door that matters. It's what you do when you walk out.' That's when you've made a lasting impression.

There's an inner feeling you get when you get in a situation to do well in a game. It's hard to explain.

The X Games have done night and day for snowboarding and action sports.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.

Shaft was a pop culture figure along t he lines of, I guess, Dirty Harry - except that he wasn't as much of a racist. So yeah, I was always a fan.