I love first base. I want to get better.

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.

My Date was waiting for me at the kitchen door, ears perked, tail wagging and bits of wicker clinging to his nose and mouth" --Abby Shaw, Sucker Punched

Belief driven by determination is one key factor governing whether what you pursue becomes real or not.

Simple" Kate had wanted to say, "I'm already dead.

But of these things I must not now speak. I will tell only of the lone tomb in the darkest of the hillside thickets.

There's a time for debate and a time for consensus. There's a time for advocacy and time for first principles.

Why should the soul ever repose? God, its Principle, reposes never.

Prosperity provideth, but adversity proveth friends.

I remember hearing in first grade, 'Oh, why does she get to skip school?' It wasn't like I suddenly started feeling different. I always knew that I was. I never felt I missed out.

A happy marriage is the world's best bargain.

I guess country music works better in supermarkets.