Obviously, you're known for what you do. But you still want to be known as a good person. You're a person a lot longer before and after you're a professional athlete.

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.

The transformation of the world takes place in your heart.

The difference between a good golf shot and a bad one is the same as the difference between a beautiful and a plain woman --a matter of millimetres.

If you make enough bad decisions, every once in a while things work out for you.

Honest unaffected distrust of human abilities under all circumstances is the surest sign of strength of mind.

The boss drives people; The leader coaches them.

That's my policy - to be positive, to just hope that something will happen. If you start with all your fears, your receptivity is for the negative.

The Cross is the Word through which God has responded to evil in the world.

Life is a series of sensations connected to different states of consciousness

I've found out why people laugh. They laugh because it hurts so much . . . because it's the only thing that'll make it stop hurting.