My greatest memories as a kid were playing sports with my dad and watching sports with my dad.

I have no problem with the arbitration process.

Home runs come in bunches. You can go two weeks without one or hit four in a week. Sometimes, you just feel that stroke for a week or two weeks straight.

The only dream I've ever had is to become a major league baseball player.

To be able to play baseball for those nine innings in front of a major league crowd is a special privilege.

I'm so excited about the new [Yankee] stadium!

Education is very important to me, as is helping children.

I didn't realize how much I loved the game until I couldn't play it.

I have confidence that whatever I set in my mind will happen. Everything I strived for I reached.

I think everybody out there on the American team is out of their element. That's not an excuse. That's the way it is. It's early in the spring. A lot of guys are not as (locked-in) as they could be.

I always lift weights very heavy and spend a lot of time in the weight room.

Success becomes inevitable when you fence your destiny with God's word.

My music is the spiritual expression of what I am - my faith, my knowledge, my being.

We all have strengths, weaknesses and blind spots. In fact, an average person has 3.4 blind spots.

Macedonia's handling of ethnic relations and other issues is encouraging.

What we call emancipation is always and of necessity simply the free choice of the soul between one set of limitations and another.

There's a Cuban saying: Bicho malo nunca muere. Loose translation: The good die young but the wicked live forever. It seems to apply to Fidel. I hope it applies to me.

Eyes that have never wept cannot comprehend sorrow.

One of the lowest points in my life was when I was diagnosed and combated with severe ulcerative colitis which is severe ulcers in you colon that bleed.

You know the bank I used to cry all the way to. I bought it.

Don't short many stocks. Instead they hedge for tail risk with CDS and options. They are happy to incur illiquidity