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.

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

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

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 mind is a thing capable of destroying itself when deep grief sets in, and when left alone to muse over one’s misery, the most irreparable damage can be done. You need people to heal.

The time to stop talking is when the other person nods his head affirmatively but says nothing.

Who said we were owed happiness?

Possession, they say, is eleven points of the law.

Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honoris a private station.

Texas is rich in unredeemed dreams

An act of renunciation is an act of union with God. The Divine Master looks lovingly upon a person who gains a victory over self.

I suppose the pursuit of fashion has always carried a price, monetary or otherwise.

Esquire needs to be more like a mommy blog