Baseball is a game of failure. There are plenty of opportunities to be down, or to feel sorry for yourself, or to be upset at somebody or upset at yourself.

I have no problem with the arbitration process.

Home runs come in bunches. You can go two weeks without one or hit four in a week. Sometimes, you just feel that stroke for a week or two weeks straight.

The only dream I've ever had is to become a major league baseball player.

My greatest memories as a kid were playing sports with my dad and watching sports with my dad.

To be able to play baseball for those nine innings in front of a major league crowd is a special privilege.

I'm so excited about the new [Yankee] stadium!

Education is very important to me, as is helping children.

I didn't realize how much I loved the game until I couldn't play it.

I have confidence that whatever I set in my mind will happen. Everything I strived for I reached.

I think everybody out there on the American team is out of their element. That's not an excuse. That's the way it is. It's early in the spring. A lot of guys are not as (locked-in) as they could be.

That woman wants to hear all my wishes, For already a thousand years, And each my thought knows to read, Even if I don't utter it aloud.

Constant effort and frequent mistakes are the stepping stones to genius.

Victory is a good wine

I never knew that I could love someone the way that I love you.

Society matters not so much. Words are everything.

It takes far less energy to move from first-rate performance to excellence than it does to move from incompetence to mediocrity.

There's a lot of not caring that goes under the name of minding your own business.

I think everybody at IBM knows the early 1990s disaster, and its in our fabric that you cannot miss the ship.

Readers, transformed by film and TV, are used to seeing stories. The reading experience . . . is increasingly visual.

A well informed citizenry is the best defense against tyranny.