There's responsibility, but there's also accountability. You have to be accountable for your actions. You have to stand at your locker when things are going bad.

My office is at Yankee stadium. Yes, dreams do come true.

I think everyone is ticklish. You just gotta find the right spots.

I love it when people doubt me. It makes me work harder to prove them wrong.

I have the greatest job in the world. Only one person can have it. You have shortstops on other teams - I'm not knocking other teams - but there's only one shortstop on the Yankees.

Surround yourself with good people. People who are going to be honest with you and look out for your best interests.

There may be people who have more talent than you, but there's no excuse for anyone to work harder than you do - and I believe that.

This is why you play - to get an opportunity to play in the playoffs.

The last thing you want to do is finish playing or doing anything and wish you would have worked harder.

I'm not perfect; no one is perfect. Everyone makes mistakes. I think you try to learn from those mistakes.

You don't just accidentally show up in the World Series.

Nothing is ever lost, Sarah. Nothing that can't be found.

If you live life so cautiously as to never fail, you end up failing at life itself.

Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything.

She soothed and solaced and celebrated destroying her gift by maiming it to suit her hearers.

Every rock'n'roll band I know, guys with long hair and tattoos, plays golf now.

Painting is like romance, since it is all about seeing, feeling, and interpreting.

I don't really have an issue with showing certain parts of my body. I'd rather not, but it's not a big deal. Growing up in Sweden, it's natural over there.

Grief hallows hearts, even while it ages heads.

The ultimate starting point for planning any adventure or expeditionby far and away the greatest book on earth

I grew up in a culture in which it was a sin for a woman to speak out.