You can never pat yourself on the back during the season. Then you get complacent, stop working and let yourself slide.

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.

Forgive and be compassionate with another in love, in peace and in faith.

Many men beg for a job but have no clue what hard work really means.

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle.

In my family, as in most middle-class Indian families I knew when I was growing up, science and mathematics were held in awe.

I'm shopping around for something to do that no one will like.

Circuit training consists of doing resistant movements combined with an aerobic activity (jogging in place, jump rope, jumping jacks, etc.).

Perhaps everyone has a story that could break your heart.

The novels were all right for a while until she found out that most of them were like the movies - all about the pretty ones who really own the world.

No Marxist can deny that the interests of socialism are higher than the interests of the right of nations to self-determination.