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.

One of the beautiful things about baseball is that every once in a while you come into a situation where you want to, and where you have to, reach down and prove something.

Playing baseball for a living is like having a license to steal.

Guessing what the pitcher is going to throw is eighty percent of being a successful hitter. The other twenty percent is just execution.

Baseball is a game, yes. It is also a business. But what it most truly is, is disguised combat. For all its gentility, its almost leisurely pace, baseball is violence under wraps.

There are three types of baseball players: those who make it happen, those who watch it happen, and those who wonder what happens.

I ain't afraid to tell the world that it don't take school stuff to help a fella play ball.

I never smile when I have a bat in my hands. That's when you've got to be serious.

It helps if the hitter thinks you're a little crazy.

After I hit a home run I had a habit of running the bases with my head down. I figured the pitcher already felt bad enough without me showing him up rounding the bases.

I never blame myself when I'm not hitting. I just blame the bat and if it keeps up, I change bats.

I'd like to thank the good Lord for making me a Yankee.

With the money I'm making, I should be playing two positions.

The pitcher has got only a ball. I've got a bat. So the percentage in weapons is in my favor and I let the fellow with the ball do the fretting.

The only thing I can do is play baseball. I have to play ball. It's the only thing I know.

Baseball is what we were. Football is what we have become.

Sports Trivia - general sports trivia.