The draft is a crapshoot, so I've been very fortunate to be drafted by the Yankees, and to have spent my whole career here.

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.

Life gets so ridiculous, you just have to brush it off like sand and laugh. I think the laughter is good medicine for crap-itis.

What's the subject of life - to get rich? All of those fellows out there getting rich could be dancing around the real subject of life.

You can read books without ever stepping into a library; and practice spirituality without ever going to a temple.

A book should be luminous not voluminous.

The Pathan people of Waziristan are proud people who I greatly admire.

Paris Hilton isn't my rival. I met her one or two times and she's making out there's this big rivalry between us and there so isn't.

These last few years, working with Tim Burton, it's been the best time I've ever had.

I believe we are being dishonest with language minority groups if we tell them they can take full part in American life without learning the English language.

In the modern-day world, where time is premium and battle for subsistence is unimaginably tough, the hapless common man simply gives in and pays the bribe just to get on with life.

Every American was to become a performing self.