I've lost a little bit of my fire... I don't want to say I've lost my passion.

When I look back at the tapes, your first everything, your first All-Star Game, your first playoff experience, it just seems like it went by really fast.

I don't want to speak to two empty chairs.

When you have a chance to take the ball for the world champs, you take the ball.

It's pretty simple, the way I look at it. I became a Hall of Famer here (in New York), with my numbers here and what I've done here, and hopefully three-hundred will be another big part of that. When (former Red Sox general manager Dan) Duquette said that I was done, if I'd have taken his advice and went home, I wouldn't have been a Hall of Famer. So it's a no-brainer. It's definitely pretty easy. Reggie (Jackson) spent five years here, and this will be five for me.

Even though I play a professional sport now, I love college baseball

Every time I toe the rubber, it's no different for me than it was in the World Series.