I think when things linger, that's when they become a distraction. I don't want any distractions.

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.

A parent who cannot provide the basic needs of two children, must not even bear one.

Save a boyfriend for a rainy day - and another, in case it doesn't rain.

Write to Please Yourself. When You write to Please Others You end up Pleasing No one.

I'm against this huge globalisation on the basis of economic advantage.

I see the potential for a new world being born in front of me and all around me, and I feel the only way to bring that potential into being is to know myself.

If Death stepped miraculously through the glass and came in after you, in all probability you just got up and went along with him, ferociously but quietly.

Do we really need another picture of Paris Hilton or Naomi Campbell?

If we come to see that this world does not have the final word, then we open our mind and therefore our entire lives to experience the possibility of infinite possibilities.

A person can be religious and still respect secular values and not talk about Jesus all the time as though every American believed in Jesus.

I've done some pretty bad things in my life.