“Defense usually doesn’t make many headlines, but it goes a long way towards winning baseball games. There are a number of ways to make an impact during the course of a game, and playing solid, sound defense is one of them.”

I want to play every day. This year will be absolutely no different.

The only legacy I want is to be thought of as a winner.

The last thing you want to do is finish playing or doing anything and wish you would have worked harder.

I never think about my own stats, as long as I’m contributing to the team.

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.

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.

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.

Knowing the enemy enables you to take the offensive, knowing yourself enables you to stand on the defensive.

For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of Justice out of sight.

The best offense needs the best defense.

Fashion has always been my defense mechanism.

Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.

For in other ways a woman is full of fear, defenseless, dreads the sight of cold steel; but, when once she is wronged in the matter of love, no other soul can hold so many thoughts of blood.

No, painting is not interior decoration. It is an instrument of war for attack and defense against the enemy.

I don’t even call it violence when it’s in self defense; I call it intelligence.