If you're going to play at all, you're out to win. Baseball, board games, playing Jeopardy, I hate to lose.

If I'm shifted two steps toward third base and the ball goes up the middle, people say I have no range to my left. That's why those statistics aren't accurate. You're changing for every batter, sometimes with every pitch. You really can't make one statistic for every shortstop. You have to go by what you see.

I try to stay as private as possible; I know that's difficult, especially playing here in New York, but I make an attempt at it.

I attribute much of my success in New York to my ability to understand and avoid unnecessary distractions.

I think there's something wrong with me - I like to win in everything I do, regardless of what it is. You want to race down the street, I want to beat you. If we're playing checkers, I want to win. You beat me, it's going to bother me. I just enjoy competition.

Handle yourself like a professional on the field and you have one goal-and that's to win.

The last thing you want to do is finish playing or doing anything and wish you would have worked harder.