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.

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

I love the game of baseball.

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.

People ask me if my shoes were too small when I was a kid and I say it wouldnt matter how fight my shoes were, I just liked that feeling of them being in there. Thats how I started tapping my toes.

Waiting turns men into bears in a barn, and women into cats in a sack.

Good coaching is good teaching and nothing else.

We readily go to the health club when our doctor suggests we need more exercise, but we regularly neglect the 'mental health club' that our well-being more truly requires.

I enjoyed school, I was a bit of a square. I did very well in exams. I was quite lucky I was academic.

I found being able to change things on the fly and react to the changes in the artwork makes it stronger. And I feel like I'm not doing the job twice.

I condemn everyone and anyone who commits acts of terrorism. And Hamas has committed acts of terrorism.

While we can remember the past, we cannot write the future. Only our children, the future of our community, can do that.

I love music because it's so fecking brilliant. Music is math, and math is the structure of everything and pretty much perfect.

Fate has a way of getting what she wants, no matter how we try to avoid it.

I love art, but I'm not an academic; I just like what I like.