I'll continue to use Mac [McNamee] to train me. He's one of a kind.

I wasn't scared (during his first at-bat). I just told them (Mo Vaughn & Kevin Mitchell') to give me all that hockey equipment (forearm pad & shin guard respectively).

If someone met me on a game day, he wouldn't like me. The days in between, I'm the goodest guy you can find.

I wish there was a bar I could send opposing teams to and get them hammered or something - I could tell my buddies in New York to leave their places open or something. Playing for the Yankees, guys come at you extremely hard. I have to be ready or I'll be embarrassed

I think anything is possible if you have the mindset and the will and desire to do it and put the time in.

Everybody kind of perceives me as being angry. It's not anger, it's motivation.

The tradition you have at the University of Texas is like no other. It helped me in the future where I got to play in 2 cities that were rich in tradition.