I love New York, I love the Yankees, I love the fans here.

What I try to do is don't have any ups and downs. I emphasize taking the same approach.

The power of home run hitters in the majors is different from those here. It's probably difficult for me to match that power now.

I'm aware the fans in the U.S. can be less forgiving...I'll just have to do my best to please them.

It's not like you can aim for a home run and hit a home run.

It's important to find a team where you can be comfortable. I know there are a lot of high expectatons.

I'm a baseball player. Not being able to play baseball certainly was a lonely thing.

I've been watching American baseball on television for a long time, but it was only in recent years that, realistically, I've been thinking about playing here.

The drum to which we march reveals the conductor to whom we’re listening.

A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.

Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.

The so-called culture nowadays is only a fake one with a superficial front. It is an empty lie.

There are many things that I don't understand.

Do I catch flak because I'm so much smarter than everyone else? I don't know.

If you're the president you only have two jobs: peace and money.

I would rather sit still in a state of peace on a stone than ride in the motor-car of a multi-millionaire and feel the peacelessness of the multi-millionaire poisoning me.

I believe that writers, unless they consider themselves terribly exquisite, are at heart people who live by night, a little bit outside society, moving between delinquency and conformity

A man may publish anything which twelve of his countrymen think not blamable.