Hideki Irabu had a very good curveball. Just a straight up and down, swing-and-miss curveball.

I'm very proud of my area around the plate. I don't want anyone messing with my dirt.

I could never wear another uniform. I will forever be a Yankee.

I think you learn. You learn from your mistakes. You learn from things you do and try to stay away from the negatives in your life. I think I've grown.

You gotta take care of yourself; you cant do anything in excess.

The only thing that matters is when the team wins.

My father knows me better than anyone. He can tell me over the phone what I'm doing wrong.

If I see a problem (in the clubhouse), I say something right away. I don't wait two or three days.

When you're aggressive behind the plate, calling a game, that's when you're at your best. You can't be tentative.

You can always look back on having a good defensive day, even if you didn't do anything offensively. You won the game and you contributed.

I try to go out and do the same thing every night. I've been taught since I was a kid that the only thing that matters is winning.

The gnomons's shadow falls where it falls - and so do we. Where we are now is where a lifetime's worth of steps have taken us.

We’ll walk this road together, through the storm. Whatever weather, cold or warm.

A garden must combine the poetic and the mysterious with a feeling of serenity and joy.

I'm not a diva. I know what I like and I know what I want.

I don't like thank you cards because I don't know what else to say. What do I put on the inside? See Front.

Energy moves in waves. Waves move in patterns. Patterns move in rhythms. A human being is just that energy, waves, patterns, rhythms. Nothing more. Nothing less. A dance.

Occasionally the state of the planet can knock me off my perky perch.

Among the sentiments of most powerful operation upon the human heart, and most highly honorable to the human character, are those of veneration for our forefathers and of love for our posterity.

I want, by understanding myself, to understand others.

Fail fast, fail hard, fail often.