People ask me if my shoes were too small when I was a kid and I say it wouldnt matter how fight my shoes were, I just liked that feeling of them being in there. Thats how I started tapping my toes.

When I go home my mother still makes me take out the garbage.

All players are their own worst critics. We are harder on ourselves than anyone else is.

That's basically what I'm doing when I'm tapping them - getting my toes to the end of my shoes.

People expect you to play your best, so I go through a routine to prepare myself so that I know I'm physically and mentally ready - prepared for the game.

My inspiration was the game itself, not any individual player in it.

You know it as soon as you walk in Yankee Stadium. The electricity is there every time, every day.