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.

I'm always happy. I like to have fun. During the game, I don't like showing my emotions, though. I'm all about winning the game. I take a lot of responsibility for that.

A certain way to have financial security in life is not enough savings, but enough ability.

All things obey fixed laws.

In theatre, there's the director, the writer, and below them the actor. In film, it's the actors who are most important. That goes against the grain for me.

The truth is far from you, so you know you got to lie. Then you're all the time defending what you can never justify.

I must confess it was very unexpected and I am very startled at my metamorphosis into a chemist.

Childhood and youth are ends in themselves, not stages.

I've worked with very few that I considered unpleasant. Dennis the Menace was a joy to work on.

All cultural imitation, opposed as it is to creativeness, is bound to make a people small.

One of the world’s great religions — which has more than 1.4 billion adherents — somehow sanctions genocide, planned genocide, as part of its religious doctrine.

Passion is power, And, kindly tempered, saves. All things declare Struggle hath deeper peace than sleep can bring.