I always lift weights very heavy and spend a lot of time in the weight room.

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.

I find endless sustenance in the creative. I freely drink from the fountain of knowledge. I'm forever the student - considered the teacher.

If my life were a fragrance, it would smell like the sea.

Is there a reason you look like you want to murder me?""Not particularly. You have that effect on people.

There's so little money in my bank account, my scenic checks show a ghetto.

I was a different sort of child, as half the children are. I was in that category of being free-spirited.

Plot is merely the mechanism by which your character is forced up against her deepest fears and desires.

Those full of fear were the most dangerous of people.

I usually go to bed early to read. I read and I always say that I'm not a "bohemian artist;" I need to read for one or two hours in the evening, and the quiet, so I don't hang out a lot.

I don't want to be just another blade of grass.

I'm a little bit allergic to the whole brand thing to be honest but maybe it's just happening around me and I'm not really aware of it.