I get nervous watching teammates. I get nervous for them. Late in the game, pressure situation, I'm nervous for them.
Any player that says they don't want to go to an All-Star Game is lying to you. It's something everyone wants to be a part of.
The draft is a crapshoot, so I've been very fortunate to be drafted by the Yankees, and to have spent my whole career here.
Sometimes people complicate things by thinking too much about what someone might think of what they said or did.
I don't really see myself getting a Twitter account. Nothing against it. I get it. I especially get it for businesses.
When you come right down to it, I guess I really am pretty bland.
I don't want to give people the impression that I'm an almost perfect human being.
I think people found out I'm just like anybody else. I've got problems, too.
I've experienced the highest of highs and lowest of lows. I think to really appreciate anything you have to be at both ends of the spectrum.
You get to the plate and nothing is going through your mind. You see the ball, you see the seams.
I know my swing is going to be there. I don't need 600 swings in the cage; I know where it's at.
I've learned that you have to take responsibility for yourself in this game and lead yourself through it.
If you're playing for the Kansas City Royals about all you can do is beat your head against the wall.
It used to be that if you had a pretty good record, you could stop by a station in Little Rock or Atlanta and let the DJ listen to it. No way something like that can happen now.
My bones are as hard as a rock. Every time I have a biopsy, the doctors are doing hand exercises a week, ten days out.
A major league pitching coach is a really difficult job. It takes a big commitment in terms of time, travel and workload.
Something went wrong with my right arm. I no longer could throw hard, and it hurt like the dickens every time I threw.
When people come to the show they think we are a legendary band because they hear us on Classic Rock radio all the time. It is psychological. That's okay - I'm down with that.
I looked for the same pitch my whole career, a breaking ball. All of the time. I never worried about the fastball. They couldn't throw it past me, none of them.
Until spring training in 1946, the only time I pitched was in 1945 in the GI World Series.
If you could equate the amount of time and effort put in mentally and physically into succeeding on the baseball field and measured it by the dirt on your uniform, mine would have been black.
