I'm so excited about the new [Yankee] stadium!

I have no problem with the arbitration process.

Home runs come in bunches. You can go two weeks without one or hit four in a week. Sometimes, you just feel that stroke for a week or two weeks straight.

The only dream I've ever had is to become a major league baseball player.

My greatest memories as a kid were playing sports with my dad and watching sports with my dad.

To be able to play baseball for those nine innings in front of a major league crowd is a special privilege.

Education is very important to me, as is helping children.

I didn't realize how much I loved the game until I couldn't play it.

I have confidence that whatever I set in my mind will happen. Everything I strived for I reached.

I think everybody out there on the American team is out of their element. That's not an excuse. That's the way it is. It's early in the spring. A lot of guys are not as (locked-in) as they could be.

I always lift weights very heavy and spend a lot of time in the weight room.

Who ever felt canary yellow and light blue are a suitable color should be tarred and feathered.

A child weaned on poison considers harm a comfort.

I do not want to get rid of the safety net, I want to get rid of dependency.

If something boils up under stress later, I remind myself to breathe and focus back to how I decided my day was going to go. It's simple but it works.

If I am not worth the wooing, I surely am not worth the winning!

The country is split. There are - more people voting for Hillary Clinton than Donald Trump, but he's the president.

People used to laugh that academics would study Disney movies. There's nothing more important for academics to study, because they shape the minds of our children possibly more than any single thing.

In any country, corruption tends to increase when more respectable means of social advancement break down.

Great ambition is the passion of a great character.

People will remember a good comedy song a lot longer than they would some of the so-called straight love songs.