My goal is to play hard and give the city a chance for a championship.

All the time, I think positive things about baseball. That's always how you do it. I'm a baseball player-that's all I want to do, all the time, be better and better.

I make stupid errors because I don't concentrate. I let things bother me.

Every time I walk out onto the field, I feel that I can be the best one in the game and that I can be a superstar.

It's been a long time since I've been in the playoffs. I want to get back there.

I think my power comes from my hands.

I don't miss playing for the Yankees. I miss my friends, my teammates.

Look at Sammy Sosa-before he was skinny. Now he's big and he hits a lot of homers. Maybe I'll be the same.

MVP is the best player in the league. I think that's too big for me. When people call me the MVP, I'm a little surprised by that.

If I make a mistake here and there, I'm going to come back and try and play aggressive. This is my game.

I think I do a great job in the outfield.

Gratitude is only expressed and appreciated in proportion to your understanding of grace.

In a nutshell, I am not unaware of my failings. Neither am I a stranger to irony.

My feeling is that poetry will wither on the vine if you don't regularly come back to the simplest fundamentals of the poem: rhythm, rhyme, simple subjects - love, death, war.

Writing is like playing golf - you have to keep working at your swing.

Jerry Bruckheimer really is an executive producer, who obviously is the most successful producer in the history of film and television.

My religion of life is always to be cheerful.

I grabbed my drummer's cymbal in my teeth just as he crashed down on it with his sticks-I blacked out. I was a punk in those days. It was in Seattle. I still have all my teeth too, it's amazing.

It seems to take a lifetime for us to learn that wisdom consists largely in a graceful acceptance of things that do not immediately concern us.

I love writing journalism because it's all over in two hours and comes straight off the top of the head. Writing novels is soooooo much harder. It's the hardest thing I've ever done.

If you look at movies with Cary Grant or Jimmy Stewart and all the rest of it, none of them looks like a boy. They always looked like mature men. The audience didn't want to go and see kids.