It's great that fans have people they can enjoy and watch play.

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

I feel good, and the way I determine it is through my workout. I work so hard in the offseason that if I'm able to do everything I have to, I figure I must be healthy.

Back then, my idol was Bugs Bunny, because I saw a cartoon of him playing ball - you know, the one where he plays every position himself with nobody else on the field but him? Now that I think of it, Bugs is still my idol. You have to love a ballplayer like that.

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

Get an education because no one can take that away from you.

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