My inspiration was the game itself, not any individual player in it.

When I go home my mother still makes me take out the garbage.

I love the game of baseball.

People expect you to play your best, so I go through a routine to prepare myself so that I know I'm physically and mentally ready - prepared for the game.

I feel good, and the way I determine it is through my workout. I work so hard in the offseason that if I'm able to do everything I have to, I figure I must be healthy.

You know it as soon as you walk in Yankee Stadium. The electricity is there every time, every day.

You can't hit without your hands.

Get an education because no one can take that away from you.

One of my superstitions is I'm not allowed to talk about them.

That's basically what I'm doing when I'm tapping them - getting my toes to the end of my shoes.

All players are their own worst critics. We are harder on ourselves than anyone else is.

I too am my own forerunner, though I sit in the shadows of my trees and seem motionless.

Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.

A dream is a massive magic trick of the mind. No amount of science could explain away the mysterious wonder.

Every bees hony is sweet.

A wise woman puts a grain of sugar into everything she says to a man, and takes a grain of salt with everything he says to her.

You are exactly like Jesus when you are wearing his armor.

Be honest with yourself and lie to everyone else.

If you read a lot of books you are considered well read. But if you watch a lot of TV, you're not considered well viewed.

When you change your thoughts and perception, you change the way you live.

Overcoming sin, blessed though it surely is, is but the bare minimum of a believers experience. There is nothing astonishing in it. Not to overcome sin is what ought to astonish us.