You know it as soon as you walk in Yankee Stadium. The electricity is there every time, every day.

When I go home my mother still makes me take out the garbage.

I love the game of baseball.

People expect you to play your best, so I go through a routine to prepare myself so that I know I'm physically and mentally ready - prepared for the game.

I feel good, and the way I determine it is through my workout. I work so hard in the offseason that if I'm able to do everything I have to, I figure I must be healthy.

You can't hit without your hands.

Get an education because no one can take that away from you.

One of my superstitions is I'm not allowed to talk about them.

That's basically what I'm doing when I'm tapping them - getting my toes to the end of my shoes.

All players are their own worst critics. We are harder on ourselves than anyone else is.

People ask me if my shoes were too small when I was a kid and I say it wouldnt matter how fight my shoes were, I just liked that feeling of them being in there. Thats how I started tapping my toes.

Why could you not have left me as I was, in the sea of being?""Because the world has need of your humility, your piety, your great teaching and your Machiavellian scheming.

After all, suicide is contagious.

Piece by piece living is hard to do. It may even feel like the hardest thing. But it has this going for it: you never need to know what it is you're carrying on your shoulders.

The code of the knight is still the code of the gentleman today.

Parents spend a lot of time talking over kids. My son went through a vocabulary burst as I was writing The Bear. I thought, What if I just stopped and listened?

Some people call themselves fiscal conservatives; my wife says I'm just cheap.

There is satisfaction in seeing one's household prosper; in being both bountiful and provident.

I've said we need to look at things from the perspective of working people and taxpayers, not from the perspective of government and government officials.

Even for the most excitable preacher, there was nothing inherently sinful about a waffle.

Those who say I can, and those who say I can't - are both usually right