Acting is really not what I'm interested in. I'm not an aspiring actor and you should be able to tell.

You can always improve your bench and relief pitching.

You need to be locally relevant, globally consistent.

The Yankees have better starting pitchers than Arizona. Arizona just has two... the Yanks have four.

Everyone has someone they looked up to. Mine was Mickey Mantle. For Alex Rodriguez to idolize me coming up, that makes me feel very good.

I didn't cost the Series. I cost a game in the regular season.

No rational argument will have a rational effect on a man who does not want to adopt a rational attitude.

Ieder beest bidt op zijn manier.

The professional learns to recognize envy-driven criticism and to take it for what it is: the supreme compliment. The critic hates most that which he would have done himself if he had had the guts.

A sense of the value of time ... is an essential preliminary to efficient work it is the only method of avoiding hurry.

Anything I've ever done that ultimately was worthwhile ... initially scared me to death.

You don't love a man for what he says, but love what he says because you love him.

Your body has this instinct to start healing and then you go back to work and it hurts even more. It's almost better to keep your body messed-up on a consistent basis.

The friend who understands you, creates you.

My strategy is not to give them a chance to hit me.

Through the intensive aspiration of the human soul arises in man the desire for independence.