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

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

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

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.

People are going to make comparisons and they can do that but I'm definitely not going to compare myself to Derek Jeter.

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