He's (Rafael Palmeiro) always the left-handed swing you want to copy. He's got a real smooth swing and he's never off balance. He's always on top of the ball. I just like watching him hit.

I'm very proud of my area around the plate. I don't want anyone messing with my dirt.

I could never wear another uniform. I will forever be a Yankee.

I think you learn. You learn from your mistakes. You learn from things you do and try to stay away from the negatives in your life. I think I've grown.

You gotta take care of yourself; you cant do anything in excess.

The only thing that matters is when the team wins.

My father knows me better than anyone. He can tell me over the phone what I'm doing wrong.

If I see a problem (in the clubhouse), I say something right away. I don't wait two or three days.

When you're aggressive behind the plate, calling a game, that's when you're at your best. You can't be tentative.

You can always look back on having a good defensive day, even if you didn't do anything offensively. You won the game and you contributed.

I try to go out and do the same thing every night. I've been taught since I was a kid that the only thing that matters is winning.

From the moment I could even understand what “respect” was I knew it was not a choice but the ONLY option.

Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people.

The UID is a corporate scam which funnels billions of dollars into the IT sector

Hope and fear cannot alter the seasons

We're all just facilitators. The real business is done by readers.

This particular school of Zen has always considered itself the Marines of the spiritual world, so it has a kind of bias against conceptual thinking in favor of a very rigorous physical life.

The State calls its own violence, law; but that of the individual, crime.

If penicillin had been judged by its toxicity to guinea pigs, it might never have been used by man.

Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.

The purpose behind terrorism is to instill fear in people - the fear that electrical power, for instance, will be taken away or the transportation system will be taken down.