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" Athletics keeps us healthy, gets us up and running around. It also gives you an opportunity to meet a lot of different people, which is very important. "

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" You're a person a lot longer before and after you're a professional athlete. People always say to me, 'Your image is this, your image is that.' Your image isn't your character. Character is what you are as a person. That's what I worry about. "

" I've always been very cautious with what I do. You know, that started at a young age. I always had the approach or the mentality I never wanted to embarrass my parents. "

" Walking around sometimes, I would love to just be able to watch people, see how they act. Sometimes I would love to be invisible. "

" 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. "

" That's how you win - pitching and defense. "

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

" When you put a lot of hard work into one goal and you achieve it, that's a really good feeling. "

" I always have tried to treat people with respect, the way I want to be treated. "

" When it was time for parent-teacher conferences, I remember that I was always embarrassed about what my parents would hear about me! "

" I can have fun anywhere, as long as I'm with good people. But in the offseason, I like to go somewhere warm, a nice spot in the Caribbean. "

" I try to sign for as many kids as possible. Kids come first, and I'll always sign for a kid before an adult. It's funny, because I was never big into autographs as a kid. The only player who I ever wanted an autograph from was Dave Winfield. "

" You can't quantify everything a player does to win games. "

" My dreams do not end with playing Major League Baseball. "

" I have feelings. I'm not emotionally stunted. "

" My heroes, my dreams, and my future lay in Yankee Stadium. And they can't take that away from me. "

" Everyone fears rejection. "

" The Yankees have strict rules. You can have a mustache but no other facial hair. "

" The draft is a crapshoot, so I've been very fortunate to be drafted by the Yankees, and to have spent my whole career here. "

" I wish I trusted people more. But when I meet someone, the first thing is, 'What does this person want?' And I put up a defense mechanism. But I've always been that way. "

" It's never over. You don't want to be in the position to be down four runs in the ninth inning, but it's not over until the last out. "

" I like to dance and sing when there's no one around, but, if I'm out, I'm really shy about it. So it takes a lot to get me going, but I enjoy being around music. "

" Sometimes people complicate things by thinking too much about what someone might think of what they said or did. "

" The big difference for me is that, as I get older, I find it's a lot easier to stay in shape than it is to get back in shape. "

" I remember going from rookie ball to A, to double A, then to triple A. At every level it seemed like the game was faster. The bigger the situation, the more the game speeds up. That's all mental. It messes people up. "

" I want to own a team one day. You know, that's my next goal. "

" If you're going to win games, you're going to have to come up with the big hits. That's the bottom line. "

" You know what I want to do? Wake up one weekend and not have to go anywhere and do nothing. "

" I attribute much of my success in New York to my ability to understand and avoid unnecessary distractions. "

" You're playing a game, whether it's Little League or Game 7 of the Word Series. It's impossible to do well unless you're having a good time. People talk about pressure. Yeah, there's pressure. But I just look at it as fun. "

Having A Good Time

" The number one priority is playing baseball. There are so many people in New York trying to get you to do this and get you to do that, which is fine, but you have to take care of yourself. "