I don't want to be gone. I don't want to be somewhere else. I consider myself a Yankee.

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.

Mother, you have my father much offended.

Happiness can only bloom in the garden of peace.

True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.

My mom was in a punk rock band called The Trash Women and they toured and all of that. She had me when she was 17.

Any story that Billy Wilder told, you can tell in a Western.

Handel, to him I bow the knee.

You don't really know a song until you play it live.

Being Grateful. That is the first step on the path to Joy.

It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.

Real devotion is an unbroken receptivity to the truth