I love the game of baseball.

When I go home my mother still makes me take out the garbage.

People expect you to play your best, so I go through a routine to prepare myself so that I know I'm physically and mentally ready - prepared for the game.

I feel good, and the way I determine it is through my workout. I work so hard in the offseason that if I'm able to do everything I have to, I figure I must be healthy.

You know it as soon as you walk in Yankee Stadium. The electricity is there every time, every day.

You can't hit without your hands.

Get an education because no one can take that away from you.

One of my superstitions is I'm not allowed to talk about them.

That's basically what I'm doing when I'm tapping them - getting my toes to the end of my shoes.

All players are their own worst critics. We are harder on ourselves than anyone else is.

People ask me if my shoes were too small when I was a kid and I say it wouldnt matter how fight my shoes were, I just liked that feeling of them being in there. Thats how I started tapping my toes.

You are spiritual, blessed, and god-like when you have realized that God and all humans are alike.

She had seen it done. Wherever they glittered in the afterlife – flying among the high rafters of heaven, swimming with her mother in an undersea cave – she hoped the tigers had known it, and roared.

There were people everywhere but no one was mine, and I was no one's.

They never understood what Harry Potter was about. Or maybe they didn't want to understand.

Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories, knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else.

The more I resist anything, the stronger it gets.

Smart people duck when they hear the dread announcement 'I'm going to be perfectly honest with you.

I think in society and especially in movies and media we're fed this idea that there's the one or the right person. I think it brings great ambiguity and confusion for people.

Suggestions?" I asked [...] Marc never took his gaze from the cage. "Get the hose.

What I mean by "An Unspoken Hunger." It's a hunger that cannot be quelled by material things. It's a hunger that cannot be quelled by the constant denial.