If you really think about it, the stadium can't last forever. There is going to have to come a time when it replaces.

A lot of people have been telling me that I was going to be in the Hall of Fame and those are nice words and I try not to think about it, but when the call came, it made it real. It was a pretty darned good feeling.

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

I'd like to be remembered. I'd like to think that someday two guys will be talking in a bar and one of them will say something like, 'Yeah, he's a good shortstop, but he's not as good as ole Ripken was.'

As long as I can compete, I won't quit.

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.

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.