“I know the good Lord wouldn’t give me any more than I can handle, but I sure wish he wouldn’t have so much confidence in me.”

When my Yankee career is over I’ll play anywhere, but I’m positive that I’ll never find a team quite like the Yankees.

I have played professional baseball for over half my life. From the time I picked up a baseball glove, I did not want to put it down.

Don’t be afraid to take risks. Make the most of your journey. Make it fun and exciting.

My experience over 17 years playing with the Yankees, these are a few of the things that I’ve learned. You’ve got to have a plan of action, You have to stay focused on the things you can control, and don’t get discouraged or distracted by the things you cannot control.

I had a good run here, fifteen years. That’s a great run. I’m not saying that I’m done in center field – if I could play there forever, I would. But I know that’s not reality, so I’m happy.

My job is to make myself available to play to the best of my ability. Mentally, I’ve got to stay ready to play every day.

Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness.

We have decommissioned natural selection and must now look deep within ourselves and decide what we wish to become.

When we hold something, anything, in our thought, then somehow coincidence leads us in the direction that we’ve been wishing to lead ourselves.

Frank and explicit – that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others.

I saw them with my bodily eyes as clearly as I see you. And when they departed, I used to weep and wish they would take me with them.

Everybody has done something that we wish we didn’t say or do and wish we could take it back.

It is true I wished to escape; and so I wish still: is not this lawful for all prisoners?

He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command.