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" I always take criticism as a challenge. It's the way I've always looked at it. "

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

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

" I've always been very aware of what I'm saying, but I'm also aware of what you're saying. I always want to make sure that my point is clear. "

" I like to hit the gym early in the morning. I feel better throughout the day when I get in a workout first thing in the morning. "

" I want to have a family. "

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

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

" Obviously, you're known for what you do. But you still want to be known as a good person. You're a person a lot longer before and after you're a professional athlete. "

" 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. "

" I always used to get in trouble for talking too much. When it was time for parent-teacher conferences, I remember that I was always embarrassed about what my parents would hear about me! "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" God, I hope I wear this jersey forever. "

" My dad had been shortstop when he was in college, and you know, when you're a kid, you want to be just like your dad. "

" 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. "

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

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

" I've been playing baseball since I was 5 or 6 years old. I've been on a schedule, pretty much, since I was in eighth, ninth grade. I look forward to not doing that. "

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" Not everybody's a baseball fan. "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "