It's never over. You don't want to be in the position to be down four runs in the ninth inning, but it's not over until the last out.

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.

I know, from the three visits I made to him, the blended composite of love and fear that exists only in a boy's notion of his father.

You can't prepare for the things that change your life. They come suddenly and unannounced.

I believe that music is connected by human passions and curiosities rather than by marketing strategies.

The Englishman left months ago, Hana, he's with the Bedouin or in some English garden with its phlox and shit.

The heart looks into space to be away from earth.

The new frontiers to be conquered are mainly in the convolutions of the cortex.

Undoubtedly the desire for food has been and still is one of the main causes of political events.

I hope I will get to novelize my present circumstances at some point. I have some great stories to tell.

If I'd observed all the rules, I'd never have got anywhere.

Look, nobody is ever exactly the same as anybody else. You're handed the cards you are for a particular reason, so you follow that path and see where it takes you.