A baseball swing is a very finely tuned instrument. It is repetition, and more repetition, then a little more after that.

Once you realize how good you really are, you never settle for playing less than your best.

October: that's when they pay off for playing ball.

Just like every other kid in my grade school, I was listening to my little radio plug in my ear when Mickey Mantle hit 18 post-season homers and won series after series for the Yankees. I listened and I learned from that. I think he was the original 'Mr. October,' but thank god it didn't stick.

In the building I live in on Park Avenue there are ten people who could buy the Yankees, but none of them could hit the ball out of Yankee Stadium.

I don't mind getting beaten, but I hate to lose.

The only difference between me and those other great Yankees is my skin color.