I don't play to prove people right or wrong. I just want to win.

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.

Some days I feel like I will die for them. Some days, with them.

Some men are warriors and some men are weenies. The trick is figuring out which is which.

Always remember that you have the right to be positively different.

What you focus on expands. Focus on what you are best at and you will be unstoppable.

Judaism is not a religion. At best, it is a racial credo, designed to maintain racial cohesion, in this case the Khazar bloodlines.

He for himself weaves woe who weaves for others woe, and evil counsel on the counselor recoils.

If it's a story that I feel is exciting and necessary, those are really motivating factors for me.

My work is more driven by the creative word. It's immersed in other writing and printed work, rather than drawn so much from life or past experience.

My goals have gone from being an all-star to just being able to play basketball. I always took for granted that I could play. Now I know what a gift it is.

I liked taking the elements of roadside advertising out of context because it removes the imperative and just goes to the essence of it - the pure heart of advertising.