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Joe Paterno was a well-educated man, and he was also a man from a different time.

Joe Jackson is a great man. The problem that people have with my father is that he tells it like it is. He's just straight up and doesn't beat around the bush. Tough love.

I don't care what you do - baseball or politics - George W. Bush is always going to be compared to his father. I just want it to be an easy answer in 50 years - Who was the better player, me, or my kids? I want it to be my kids.

Joe Mauer's the real deal. He is absolutely wonderful. Not only is he a great player, but he's a great human being. He's the kind of guy you'd like to see... be your son.

There's no doubt my having been a ballplayer made me feel a special sense of responsibility to Joe Jackson's life.

I have great respect for Greg Knapp, who was my quarterbacks coach in Denver for three years. He taught me so much about playing quarterback in the NFL and made me a better football player.

I have to play baseball to make me happy. I have to be an athlete. But when it's all said and done, I'll be a normal father. A normal-type house man.

I don't care what they say about me when I'm through with sports. I don't want to be known as anything else in life but a great father.

It's definitely harder being a dad than a coach.

When I'm done playing football, I just might be the couch potato dad.