I think it comes easy to work hard. I was always taught, don't short-change yourself. Keep working to get better.

My office is at Yankee stadium. Yes, dreams do come true.

I think everyone is ticklish. You just gotta find the right spots.

I love it when people doubt me. It makes me work harder to prove them wrong.

I have the greatest job in the world. Only one person can have it. You have shortstops on other teams - I'm not knocking other teams - but there's only one shortstop on the Yankees.

Surround yourself with good people. People who are going to be honest with you and look out for your best interests.

There may be people who have more talent than you, but there's no excuse for anyone to work harder than you do - and I believe that.

This is why you play - to get an opportunity to play in the playoffs.

The last thing you want to do is finish playing or doing anything and wish you would have worked harder.

I'm not perfect; no one is perfect. Everyone makes mistakes. I think you try to learn from those mistakes.

You don't just accidentally show up in the World Series.

If I had any hand in it at all there’s a chance that it might be beautiful, but it simply cannot not be majestic.

Consistency in right thinking and right doing is how you stay up in a down world.

Positive secularism is not tolerance of all religions, but it is the total denial of religious beliefs: it is the emergence of homogeneous human outlook which is based upon verifiable facts of life.

I was never a 'sit down with a notepad and write lyrics' kind of person.

People say the customer is always right, but you know what - they're not. Sometimes they are wrong and they need to be told so.

Welcome to Israel, where chanting “Death to Arabs” is democracy, running over children is equality, and firing on funerals is peace.

So many suffer so much while so few sacrifice so little.

The museum spreads its surfaces everywhere, and becomes an untitled collection of generalizations that mobilize the eye.

The only two men I have time for are Barack Obama and my trainer.

I tend not to like an awful lot of what is going out under my name now because it is just all product. Who needs it?