There is a feeling when you are in Yankee Stadium that it is a very sacred ground you are walking on and you know you had the same feelings that other great players have had in other eras that played right there on that field.

The best thing you can do in the whole world is to play baseball. That's a lucky job... The passion for baseball is always going to be there.

I had a marvelous baseball career and after my baseball career, there is an abundance of opportunity out there.

I take pride in the fact that you are able to make some good contributions to the sport at certain times.

I always thought being a gamer and someone who had a sense of responsibility to the game and to my teammates was the honorable thing.

All I really try and do is live up to my potential and do as well as I possibly could and to bring to the ballpark each and every day a good effort and do the best that I could each and every day.

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