My approach to every game was to try to erase the games that were before and try to focus on the game at hand.

We consider ourselves the luckiest fans on the face of the Earth.

The last thing you want to do is go down in the history of All-Star game competition as the only injury (his nose was broken by Roberto Hernandez) sustained during the team picture.

The streak has become my identity; it's who I've become.

I've felt some great feelings on the baseball field... in front of 50,000 people and millions on TV... but the feeling you get when you give a kid a chance, that is a hundred times greater than that feeling.

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.

When things happen to you in the worst way, you live with it, you go over it, you think, 'What else could I have done?