I love being a Yankee, and it's hard not to. It's a special place to play.

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.

The products your life must have could be in the form of an improved character and virtue.

The antidote to joy is dread.

In matters of religion and matrimony I never give advice, because I will not have anybody's torments in this world or the next laid to my charge.

Who sees pale Mammom pine amidst his store, Sees but a backward steward for the poor.

but right now it's Bob Dylan Bob Dylan Bob Dylan all the way.

Life just seems so full of connections. Most of the time we don't even pay attention to the depth of life. We only see flat surfaces.

People always assume I don't need to work for money, but my divorce settlement was not as much as it's always reported to be.

It's just a campy blast. I just want to do as little as I can and make it good, and try not to sell out. I'm sure I will, but I'm just trying to postpone it.

O plunge your hands in water, Plunge them in up to the wrist; Stare, stare in the basin And wonder what you've missed.

I don't belive Oprah's sexual abuse stories, I mean who would take a black girl when there are plenty of white?