Get an education because no one can take that away from you.

When I go home my mother still makes me take out the garbage.

I love the game of baseball.

People expect you to play your best, so I go through a routine to prepare myself so that I know I'm physically and mentally ready - prepared for the game.

I feel good, and the way I determine it is through my workout. I work so hard in the offseason that if I'm able to do everything I have to, I figure I must be healthy.

You know it as soon as you walk in Yankee Stadium. The electricity is there every time, every day.

You can't hit without your hands.

One of my superstitions is I'm not allowed to talk about them.

That's basically what I'm doing when I'm tapping them - getting my toes to the end of my shoes.

All players are their own worst critics. We are harder on ourselves than anyone else is.

People ask me if my shoes were too small when I was a kid and I say it wouldnt matter how fight my shoes were, I just liked that feeling of them being in there. Thats how I started tapping my toes.

All hail, Queen Shit-of-Liesville!

Leaders find a need and quickly respond to the need.

There are as many kinds of love as there are flowers and bugs put together but men and women and their needs are all the same.

We all do make mistakes…many times. What is commendable is that you try to find solutions. You just don’t give up.

At times he felt that he had almost rather not be in love with her, for it brought him no peace. What was the use of it, if it was only going to be painful?

Creativity is what helps me escape a lot of my inner demons.

When your Japanese lifetime is coming out, drink all the sake you want. Have a little bash.

I am not by nature the kind of creator who is transgressive in order to be transgressive.

My time in prison only deepened my resolve against apartheid. Even while I was in prison, I fought against it, teaching my cellmates about white supremacy and how to fight against it.

Ambition can be a disease, and it feeds on itself.