All the time, I think positive things about baseball. That's always how you do it. I'm a baseball player-that's all I want to do, all the time, be better and better.

I make stupid errors because I don't concentrate. I let things bother me.

Every time I walk out onto the field, I feel that I can be the best one in the game and that I can be a superstar.

It's been a long time since I've been in the playoffs. I want to get back there.

I think my power comes from my hands.

My goal is to play hard and give the city a chance for a championship.

I don't miss playing for the Yankees. I miss my friends, my teammates.

Look at Sammy Sosa-before he was skinny. Now he's big and he hits a lot of homers. Maybe I'll be the same.

MVP is the best player in the league. I think that's too big for me. When people call me the MVP, I'm a little surprised by that.

If I make a mistake here and there, I'm going to come back and try and play aggressive. This is my game.

I think I do a great job in the outfield.

Do not just exist, be fully awake.

And as always seems to happen when I have reached the point where I am ready to take decisive action, everything began to happen at once.

Never in my life had I felt so tangibly and with such astonishment that hate, by passing successively through comprehension, mercy, and sympathy, can be transformed into love.

Everyone judges plays as if they were very easy to write. They don't know that it is hard to write a good play, and twice as hardand tortuous to write a bad one.

You have to be very careful with who you do business. It's like a marriage. Do your research and check references.

There's no emotion more revolutionary than empathy.

I always believe your instinct is the most correct instinct.

There are times when even the best manager is like the little boy with the big dog, waiting to see where the dog wants to go so he can take him there.

I want to be a student for life.

It is doubling now every two years. Doubling every two years means multiplying by 1,000 in 20 years. At that rate we'll meet 100 percent of our energy needs in 20 years.