The only difference between me and those other great Yankees is my skin color.

A baseball swing is a very finely tuned instrument. It is repetition, and more repetition, then a little more after that.

I feel that the most important requirement in success is learning to overcome failure. You must learn to tolerate it, but never accept it

Sometimes I underestimate the magnitude of me.

I was reminded that when we lose and I strike out, a billion people in China don't care.

So many ideas come to you and you want to try them all, but you can't. You're like a mosquito in a nudist colony, you don't know where to start.

I'm the straw that stirs the drink.

Fans don't boo nobodies.

If I played in New York, they'd name a candy bar after me.

Once you realize how good you really are, you never settle for playing less than your best.

When you've played this game for ten years and gone to bat seven-thousand times and gotten two-thousand hits do you know what that really means? It means you've gone zero for five-thousand.

Raising awareness versus raising alarmthe public can't be better informed if the information isn't better.

You won’t ever have everyone love you, just as you won’t have everyone hate you. find the right people to love you and return the hatred of others with ambivalence or hatred of your own.

I was invited by President Bush to come to the United States on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the mutual defense treaty.

Nature has an incredible capacity for regeneration and growth, but we can't experience it if we stay fearful and focused on lack.

In the olden days, the umpire didn't have to take any courses in mind reading. The pitcher told you he was going to throw at you.

When there is no vision, people perish.

Most critical writing is drivel and half of it is dishonest. It is a short cut to oblivion, anyway. Thinking in terms of ideas destroys the power to think in terms of emotions and sensations.

The adventure is over. Everything gets over, and nothing is ever enough. Except the part you carry with you.

My eyes are wide open to the conflicts within the Church, but I don't think you can call it schism.

Regarding the psychological, your goal must not be "I need to lose X pounds" but "I'm going to regain my identity," whether as an athlete, a conservative, a sexual being, a together person, whatever.