I have often wanted to drown my troubles, but I can't get my wife to go swimming.
It was not a healthy marriage for long time. It was never about another man, it was about what my and Dennis's relationship could not sustain.
In the early years, you fight because you don't understand each other. In the later years, you fight because you do.
Me and me dad didn't have a great relationship when we were younger. We had a good relationship, but it wasn't an affectionate relationship.
My mother is from another time - the funniest person to her is Lucille Ball; that's what she loves. A lot of times she tells me she doesn't know what I'm talking about. I know if I wasn't her son and she was flipping through the TV and saw me, she would just keep going.
A man goes to a psychiatrist. "Nobody listens to me!" The doctor says, "Next!"
I think my wife puts up with me 'cause I try. I think that's all any guy can do is just try. That's right! 'Cause we ain't never gunna get it. 'Cause as soon as we get close you ladies change it. It's like this memo goes out, 'they're getting close, change it, change it!'
It is my biggest regret that I let my marriage to Erica fail. It is what it is, and she is doing an incredible job with the kids, and we are in a great place.
My mom is still yelling at me because she needs more autographed pictures.
The only time a wife listens to her husband is when he's asleep.
I'm unconventional and eccentric and talk things out, and it seemed that the person I married - maybe in reaction - got quieter and more conventional over time. It felt as if we were putting each other in a straitjacket.
My wife accuses me - and she's probably right - that I'm sometimes oversensitive.
I think if every song I had was, 'I love you, you love me,' there would be a problem.
Strange about parents. We have such easy access to them and such daunting problems of communication.
I think what destroys Hollywood marriages is our work schedule, not so much infidelity.
That's why I don't talk. Because I talk too much.
I can't tell you why a particular athlete would leave a certain coach, but I can tell you there could be many reasons. They could have personality conflicts. They could have misunderstandings. Lots of stuff can happen.
Why don't men like to stop and ask directions? This question, which I first addressed in my 1990 book 'You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation', garnered perhaps the most attention of any issue or insight in that book.
Among the reasons marriages fail, sex ranks no higher than fourth, behind money, having only one bathroom, and an inability to communicate, reasons one, two and three.
Sometimes people have a difficult time understanding my English.
I am fortunate that I have a good support network who I felt I could say, 'Hey, I need to find out why I am speaking like this,' and they could find out who I needed to speak to.
The biggest problem is when a player asks a captain why he is not playing but does not want an honest answer.
My husband and I can't get through dinner without being defensive. We've been married 24 years, and I love my husband to death, but sometimes I say, "What are we? Two injured creatures who can't talk to each other without going, like, 'Ahhh!'?"
I wasn't very good a communicating as a kid. I wasn't very good at speaking my mind, and I went through some challenges as a kid with my family, as we all do.
We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.
