It's an honor to be playing with these four players and to be a part of their fifth World Series title and my first.

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.

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

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.

California was almost entirely a dream, a dream vague but deep in the minds of a westering people.

You there is such a thing as a door, " I whispered. "You should try it some time.

Who you were is not who you are. Who you are, is what you will be.

When you are an artist, you want your audience to think its effortless and easy.

I just see myself as a human being that's concerned about life.

Romance is the combination of something that is strange with something that is secure.

In general, every stimulus directs activity. It does not simply excite it or stir it up, but directs it toward an object.

I chose to believe that God, a benign God, would understand our sufferings and forgive us our trespasses.

Whatever you wish for yourself today I'm wishing it doubled - in the nicest way! Have a Happy, Happy Birthday