When my Yankee career is over I'll play anywhere, but I'm positive that I'll never find a team quite like the Yankees.

Don't be afraid to take risks. Make the most of your journey. Make it fun and exciting.

My job is to make myself available to play to the best of my ability. Mentally, I've got to stay ready to play every day.

I know the good Lord wouldn't give me any more than I can handle, but I sure wish he wouldn't have so much confidence in me.

I had a good run here, fifteen years. That's a great run. I'm not saying that I'm done in center field - if I could play there forever, I would. But I know that's not reality, so I'm happy.

I have played professional baseball for over half my life. From the time I picked up a baseball glove, I did not want to put it down.

The only thing you absolutely have to know, is the location of the library.

A few of us are extraverts. A few of us are introverts. But most of us are ambiverts, sitting near the middle, not the edges, happily attuned to those around us. In some sense, we are born to sell.

And then after that, running around the bases, it was just one of those things. You couldn't believe what happened to you. And I look back on it, it's almost like it happened to somebody else.

The security light made me feel safe, though I knew that was an illusion. If there's light, you can just see what's coming for you a little more clearly.

Stories cannot demolish frontiers, but they can punch holes in our mental walls, and through those holes we can get a glimpse of the other and sometimes even like what we see.

To-morrow we embark upon the boundless sea.

What if what you know isn’t what people want to hear?

I can't draw a straight line to save my life. I just can't draw.

Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds.

The inquiry "who am I" turns the mind introvert and makes it calm.