It's not a fun process. There is no need for the team and a player to be on opposing sides a week or two before spring training. It's good to be on the same page.

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.

Whenever you make up your mind to go into solitude, you must decide first of all what you want to go and do there.

I am the penny whistle of American literature.

The first step is the best step in a journey towards a destination.

Confidence is the foundation of friendship. If we give it we will receive it.

Peter: Oh, the cleverness of me. Wendy: Of course, I did nothing... Peter: You did a little. Wendy: Oh, the cleverness of you.

I'm more interested in, you know, SpaceX and Tesla, what's going to happen with our intergalactic possibilities.

Don't be like me. Be better than me. That's the goal.

Managers and investors alike must understand that accounting numbers are the beginning, not the end, of business valuation.

The rules of sexism do not free men from the terror of violence; they only keep men from complaining about it.