I'm aware the fans in the U.S. can be less forgiving...I'll just have to do my best to please them.

What I try to do is don't have any ups and downs. I emphasize taking the same approach.

The power of home run hitters in the majors is different from those here. It's probably difficult for me to match that power now.

It's not like you can aim for a home run and hit a home run.

It's important to find a team where you can be comfortable. I know there are a lot of high expectatons.

I'm a baseball player. Not being able to play baseball certainly was a lonely thing.

I love New York, I love the Yankees, I love the fans here.

I've been watching American baseball on television for a long time, but it was only in recent years that, realistically, I've been thinking about playing here.

To all appearances, the artist acts like a mediumistic being who, from the labyrinth beyond time and space, seeks his way out to a clearing.

Find your truth and make your existence real as you choose it. Your creation is your own greatest gift. (Neings of Light via Joules)

Do you like kids?Only with barbecue sauce.

The whole trouble is that we won't let God help us.

True Yankees fans know an up-and-coming player when they see one.

Words are like planets, each with its own gravitational pull.

Our aim is to gain control of the two great treasure houses on which the West depends: The energy treasure house of the Persian Gulf and the minerals treasure house of Central and Southern Africa.

If you start painting yourself into a corner, life starts shutting down. There is always hopefully a next.

Imperceptibly, more time passes when I'm not remembering our every moment together, not recreating our every conversation, re-imagining our love-making. It is immeasurably sad.

You must live for another if you wish to live for yourself.