John Wetteland had a very good curveball. He threw it for a strike, too, in any count, any situation. But, he really didnt use it much. He didnt want to throw it. He wanted to throw fastball-slider.

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.

People who believe they are ignorant of nothing have neither looked for, nor stumbled upon, the boundary between what is known and unknown in the universe.

Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.

To the truly ethical man, all of life is sacred, including forms of life that from the human point of view may seem lower than ours.

My dad and mom were, they would take what were popular hits, and lip-sync to them with puppets and do a ridiculous story.

I've never believed in lower wages. Never. Never believed in lower wages, I've never believed in lower wages as an economic instrument.

I'd rather lose her from my life, but know she was alive and well than lose her altogether to death.

Today, almost all-current technologies put the speed of light to work.

I have a tendency, especially when I'm playing with great players, to try and get them the ball.

It's the gymnasium of life where you get the workout, the resistance, and you find out things about yourself that you didn't know.