“I try to stay as private as possible; I know that’s difficult, especially playing here in New York, but I make an attempt at it.”

My heroes, my dreams, and my future lay in Yankee Stadium. And they can’t take that away from me.

I have the greatest job in the world. Only one person can have it. You have shortstops on other teams – I’m not knocking other teams – but there’s only one shortstop on the Yankees.

You know what I want to do? Wake up one weekend and not have to go anywhere and do nothing.

I’ve been lying to you guys for a long time, saying I wasn’t nervous and there’s no pressure. There was a lot of pressure to do it here.

It doesn’t seem like the season really gets under way until you have your home opener

It doesn’t take any talent to play hard.

The Yankees have strict rules. You can have a mustache but no other facial hair.

Sneak out when things go good. It bothers me when people have good games and stand in front of their locker waiting for the media, then they have bad games and sneak out the back.

It doesn’t take talent to work hard.

I love it when people doubt me. It makes me work harder to prove them wrong.

Sportswriters are what make sports great and fun to watch.

If you play well on the field, everything will take care of itself.

I looked up to my parents because they were very successful in what they wanted to do. I was lucky; I didn’t have to look far for role models.

God, I hope I wear this jersey forever.

You forget about it whether it was 15-2 or 3-2. It’s still a loss. It doesn’t matter what the score was if we win tomorrow.

Handle yourself like a professional on the field and you have one goal-and that’s to win.

We shall have our manhood. We shall have it or the earth will be leveled by our attempts to gain it.

There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.

The attempt to develop a sense of humor and to see things in a humorous light is some kind of a trick learned while mastering the art of living.

Many people today attempt to draw differences between communism and socialism – there are none.

I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.

Rationalization is a process of not perceiving reality, but of attempting to make reality fit one’s emotions.

When we attempt to exercise power or control over someone else, we cannot avoid giving that person the very same power or control over us.

Do not attempt to hide things which cannot be hidden.