You need to be locally relevant, globally consistent.

You can always improve your bench and relief pitching.

Everyone has someone they looked up to. Mine was Mickey Mantle. For Alex Rodriguez to idolize me coming up, that makes me feel very good.

You need to be locally relevant, globally consistent.

The Yankees have better starting pitchers than Arizona. Arizona just has two... the Yanks have four.

You never know what's going to happen the rest of the way. You can't predict. You don't know what Montreal is going to do to us this weekend, and you don't know what the Cubs are going to do to the Cardinals.

I didn't cost the Series. I cost a game in the regular season.