College was a blast. My three years of college were the best years of my life.

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.

It is in vain to expect our prayers to be heard.

The principle component in any genuine friendship is compassion, not competition.

Now the day has ended, its brief excitements already an imperfect memory.

Poetry a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such a criticism by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty.

Innate must flow fully, freely, naturally; to, through, and into the educated brain to produce what education calls greatness.

I didn't start skiing until I was 50. My wife Lois taught me how to ski. I'm proficiently conservative.

You are what you love. Not what loves you.

My first gig was in Philadelphia and I played the drums for my older brothers. That same night, I also played drums for Martha and the Vandellas. Ah, the fond memories of being 14.

A bicultural upbringing is a rich but imperfect thing

When my supporters start making noise, Wlad [Klitschko] won't know what has hit him. He'll never have experienced an atmosphere like it.