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

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

A lot of people think I had such a rosy career, but I wanted to identify that one of the things that helps you have a long career is learning how to deal with adversity, how to get past it. Once I learned how to get through that, others things didn't seem so hard.

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

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.'

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.

I don't love the idea of the responsibility falling on the manager. That just adds to their in-game responsibility.