Different styles work for different guys... If you can handle shortstop and hit, teams will find a way to pencil you into the lineup.

There are so many great moments in Yankee Stadium. There is nothing better or no better place better to compete when you are good and the Yankees are good and you are playing a big series in September in Yankee Stadium, four game series, there is no greater excitement anywhere than the Yankee Stadium.

Get in the game. Do the best you can. Try to make a contribution. Learn from today. Apply it to tomorrow.

Stubbornness usually is considered a negative; but I think that trait has been a positive for me.

I think the cloud of suspicion has been hanging over baseball for a while. I think there has been some positive things that have come out of that. There has been a drug test policy that was been implemented that got the blessings of both the Players Association and MLB. They are trying to maintain the integrity of this sport and trying to get it back, but that cloud I think will hang over a little longer.

Whether your name is (Lou) Gehrig or (Cal) Ripken, (Joe) DiMaggio or (Jackie) Robinson, or that of some youngster who picks up his bat or puts on his glove, you are challenged by the game of baseball to do your very best day in and day out. That's all I've ever tried to do.

I love baseball. The game allowed me the influence to impact kids in a positive way. This gives me a chance to talk to some social issues.