I am not a father who wants to give his kids everything. They have to earn it.

Ever since I was a little kid, I was competitive.

I don't just think regular season. I think playoffs. World Series. That's how I think.

If you don't control your emotions, your emotions will control your acts, and that's not good.

I never give up. If you beat me, you have to beat me one, three, four, five times, and I still don't give up.

Don't worry about what the people say; be yourself, say what you want to say WITH respect.

I have nothing to ask for, thanks to God. Everything I have, God has given me.

I see the hitter when he's moved in the box, like when he's moved closer to the plate or changed his stance. I see when the batter has moved his feet, and then I make my own adjustment.

Baseball was just the avenue that the Lord used so I can provide for my family.

I think the good Lord is a Yankee.

Every time before I throw my first pitch, I am praying. And not only that, in the bullpen I am praying.

If we find ourselves in unfamiliar circumstance, what do we do? We ought to keep calm and pray.

If you're going into a very dark place, then you should take a bright light, and shine it on everything. If you don't want to see, why in God's name would you dare the dark at all?

Over the wintry forest, winds howl in rage with no leaves to blow.

You’re my true north. No compass would point me in any other direction but to you.

The only thing that really matters is to be. Man is

I was always taught to be hungry and humble.

Oh, but I think that thoughtfulness and manners are everything.

The optimum population is, then, less than the maximum.

The body without soul is no longer at the sacrifice. At the day of death it come to rebirth. The divine spirit will make the soul rejoice seeing the eternity of the world.

I’m not, like, that smart.