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

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.

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.

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

I have hope for you, if only because you're the only one left to hope for.

You have to be taught to hate.

When the Body Gets working appropriately, the force of Gravity can flow through, then spontaneously, the body heals itself

I think that we're beginning to globalize medicine now. You have to take Eastern approaches and bring them to the West, and share West with the East.

The first rule of holes: When you're in one stop digging.

We can hold to the iron rod even if others slip away and a few end up mocking us from "the great and spacious building."

I thought the only lonely place was on the moon.

Obamacare takes effect in less than eight months. Do you realize what this means? If you go to the emergency room now, you'll be covered by the time you finally see a doctor.

Is this really Butte, Montana, or just existential blues?

I put myself in the studio and I really made sure to say, 'Well, if I would normally reach for a trumpet, why don't I reach for the next nearest instrument instead?'