I wasn't playing mind games with anybody, I just said what I said. I am responsible for it, but I wish everybody would fall asleep for that one and let me go out there and do my thing.

I enjoy every bit of baseball I can get.

Every time I feel mad or something, I run somewhere. It gets my frustrations away. I run and run and run.

Actually the adrenaline of the game will probably help me out a little bit to regain command and concentration about the things that I have to do.

We grew up poor, very poor, but I am very proud of where I come from.

I get a lot of kids distracted. Sometimes they got to go cover left field, but they're over here talking to me, getting an autograph.

I remember quotes in the paper, 'Here comes the man that New York loves to hate.' Man? None of you have probably ever eaten steak with me or rice and beans with me to understand what the man is about. You might say the player, the competitor, but the man? You guys have abused my name. You guys have said so many things, have written so many things.