I've been lying to you guys for a long time, saying I wasn't nervous and there's no pressure. There was a lot of pressure to do it here.

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.

Music is like a dream. One that I cannot hear.

When you doubt the existence of God, you essentially doubt your own existence because we were all made in the image of God. Genesis 1:27.

Until I can visualise what the lyrics are about and see the story or whatever, I can't hear the melody.

I really didn't know how people were going to react to 'Magic Mike' because there hasn't been a movie like it.

It's quite hard for people to just accept that they're very contradictory.

I've just sort of jumped into relationships and moved in with people way too soon.

Deep joy is a serene and sober emotion, rarely evinced in open merriment.

The kingdom of self tends to be more focused on what the hands can touch than what the heart should embrace.

We don’t have business problems we have people problems. When we take care of our people problems, most of our business problems are automatically resolved

Yeah; I'm a much better blues player than anybody knows, but being in the kind of group I'm in, we were always trying to make popular records