Some days are a blessing when you wake up and you say, 'Wow, I feel good today.' Some days are like: 'Wow, I feel bad. I got no chance today.' You tape it up and you go.

I'm very proud of my area around the plate. I don't want anyone messing with my dirt.

I could never wear another uniform. I will forever be a Yankee.

I think you learn. You learn from your mistakes. You learn from things you do and try to stay away from the negatives in your life. I think I've grown.

You gotta take care of yourself; you cant do anything in excess.

The only thing that matters is when the team wins.

My father knows me better than anyone. He can tell me over the phone what I'm doing wrong.

If I see a problem (in the clubhouse), I say something right away. I don't wait two or three days.

When you're aggressive behind the plate, calling a game, that's when you're at your best. You can't be tentative.

You can always look back on having a good defensive day, even if you didn't do anything offensively. You won the game and you contributed.

I try to go out and do the same thing every night. I've been taught since I was a kid that the only thing that matters is winning.

Try not to judge others. Because someone might have gone through something that you wouldn't have survived if it happened to you.

The height of foolishness is to discard an opportunity without full investigation

I'd rather go to hell than worship a homophobic God.

Strategy is something that emerges from reality, while tactics might be chosen.

When we get emotionally and spiritually involved in helping a person who is in pain, a compassion enters our heart. It hurts, but the process lifts some of the pain from another.

You don't know what's coming for you in life, and you don't know what's around the corner. When you're in a great deal of pain, you're only imagining your world the way it is.

We live in such constant nearness to the abyss of past time that the moment is endlessly sucked into.

One of the truest tests of spiritual maturity is seeing the miraculous in the monotonous.

To be unrecognizable in movies is the biggest compliment that anybody can give you.

Love helps you to know yourself... turn your vision inward.