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.

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.

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.

It's never over. You don't want to be in the position to be down four runs in the ninth inning, but it's not over until the last out.

You can really never give birth to anything in this world without solitude.

The life of nations no less than that of men is lived largely in the imagination.

My perfect reader doesn't just read - he or she devours books.

What if loving something means you should mostly feel frustrated and thwarted? And then a little ruined, too, by the pursuit? But you keep coming back for more?

Both of us, me and Friedrich Nietzsche being writers, if we weren't capable of some strategic self-deception, we would have moved on to more lucrative careers long ago.

The more you live, the better an actor you are, but maybe I'd like to do something else on the side. Something to pay the bills as well.

If you can't live without me, why aren't you dead already?

I agree with people who say we want more income equality; we want more consumer protection; and we want sounder banks. I agree with all that.

Life is a child playing round your feet, a tool you hold firmly in your grip, a bench you sit down upon in the evening, in your garden.

I wish that Prince Charles had been shot. I think it would have made the world a more interesting place.