...in my book success and winning are not always the same thing. To me, success is playing - or working - to the best of your ability.

One win­ter, when I was 12, my older brother Frank (20) said to my father, 'We want you out of the house. We don't want any­thing other than the house we live in. We don't want any­thing from you. Just leave.' And he left.

Whatever sport you're looking at, it's usually the team that makes the least mistakes that has the most success.

My 12 years in New York were very, very special, the fans were very special, and it's something I will take with me wherever I go and into retirement.

Major league baseball is about the history of the game. Baseball history is so important. It's so much more than money.

If all of us who love baseball and are doing our jobs, then those who get the game from us will be as proud to be a part of it as we were. And we are. This game is a gift, and I am humbled, very humbled, to accept its greatest honor.

Jerry Coleman was the kind of player who made me proud to wear the pinstripes.