“If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don’t do it, and it won’t happen.”

I can remember a reporter asking me for a quote, and I didn’t know what a quote was. I thought it was some kind of soft drink.

A ball player has to be kept hungry to become a big leaguer. That’s why no boy from a rich family has ever made the big leagues.

The test of an outfielder’s skill comes when he has to go against the fence to make a catch.

You always get a special kick on opening day, no matter how many you go through. You look forward to it like a birthday party when you’re a kid. You think something wonderful is going to happen.

When baseball is no longer fun, it’s no longer a game.

I feel like I have reached the stage where I can no longer produce for my club, my manager, and my teammates. I had a poor year, but even if I had hit .350, this would have been my last year. I was full of aches an pains and it had become a chore for me to play. When baseball is no longer fun, it’s no longer a game.

Now I’ve had everything except for the thrill of watching Babe Ruth play.

Just two words: a masterpiece.

You ought to run the hardest when you feel the worst. Never let the other guy know you’re down.

A person always doing his or her best becomes a natural leader, just by example.

The reason I play so hard is that somewhere out there is some kid who has never seen me play before, and I don’t want to disappoint him.

I always thought there was at least one person in the stands who had never seen me play, and I didn’t want to let him down.

If I were sitting down with George Steinbrenner (to discuss a salary) and based on what Dave Winfield got for his statistics, I’d have to say, ‘George, you and I are about to become partners.’

It’s great to be young and be a Yankee!

If anyone wants to know why three kids in one family made it to the big leagues they just had to know how we helped each other and how much we practiced back then. We did it every minute we could.

Too many kids today are playing major league ball and don’t belong there.

You can’t go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.

We mean far more to God than the work we do.

The Internet really does create this dimension around the music that’s always in relation to what else is happening at the moment.

The success of SYNC is another proof point that we are doing just that.

Don’t worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

I don’t mind that I’ve created an identity around what I do.

All to often, however, what she [the woman] does want is the man she hopes she will make out of the man she already has.

Now it’s just sharp elbows, and instead of having a caucus where you sit down and say, ‘What are you doing for your country?’ you sit figuring out how to screw the other side.