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

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" 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. "

" What kind of influence did my parents have on my life? Well, they had the most influence. These are the people who are closest to me. My parents are very positive people. They've been supportive. They're always there. "

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

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

" I get nervous watching teammates. I get nervous for them. Late in the game, pressure situation, I'm nervous for them. "

" I think when things linger, that's when they become a distraction. I don't want any distractions. "

" 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 think, a lot of times, players get in trouble when they're asked questions and they think they have to find a way to answer it. If you ask me a question and I say, 'I don't know,' there's really no follow-up. "

" If you're going to play at all, you're out to win. Baseball, board games, playing Jeopardy, I hate to lose. "

" I'm a New Yorker now, and believe me, there's no comparison between the Big Apple and Kalamazoo, no similarity at all. New York City's hectic, always in fast-forward, and Kalamazoo's more laid-back, smaller, slower. "

" I think sometimes people need to get used to an idea. "

" 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. "

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

" Any player that says they don't want to go to an All-Star Game is lying to you. It's something everyone wants to be a part of. "

" You tell me you want to race down the street, I'm going to try to beat you. My grandmother asks me to race down the street, I'm going to try to beat her. And I'll probably enjoy it. Competitive to a fault, sometimes. "

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

" I went to school on Senior Skip Day. "

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

" The first thing to know about playing baseball in Michigan is, Michigan's really cold. "

" You gotta have fun. "

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

" Not everybody's a baseball fan. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 can see how people work out to feel better. "

" I think there's something wrong with me - I like to win in everything I do, regardless of what it is. You want to race down the street, I want to beat you. If we're playing checkers, I want to win. You beat me, it's going to bother me. I just enjoy competition. "

" I've always been uncomfortable, so to speak, when the focus is on me. "

" The thing that means the most to me is being remembered as a Yankee, because that's what I've always wanted to be, was to be a Yankee. "