A person always doing his or her best becomes a natural leader, just by example.

I always thought there was at least one person in the stands who had never seen me play, and I didn't want to let him down.

It's great to be young and be a Yankee!

We need a hit, so here I go.

Now this is over thirty years later and the guy said he was that cab driver. He apologized and he was serious. I felt awful. He might have been spending his whole life thinking he had jinxed me, but I told him he hadn't. My number was up.

Baseball didn't really get into my blood until I knocked off that hitting streak. Getting a daily hit became more important to me than eating, drinking or sleeping.

The test of an outfielder's skill comes when he has to go against the fence to make a catch.