Occupation: Baseball Player Birth: August 24, 1960
Stubbornness usually is considered a negative; but I think that trait has been a positive for me..
All I really try and do is live up to my potential and do as well as I possibly could and to bring to the ballpark each and every day a good effort a….
Leadership isn't about simply being in charge and treating your people like soldiers and barking orders. Leadership is sharing your knowledge and you….
If you really think about it, the stadium can't last forever. There is going to have to come a time when it replaces..
Disadvantaged kids many times don't have the support network that we all have. I know how important my parents were in my life and many of these kids….
So many good things have happened to me in the game of baseball. When I do allow myself a chance to think about it, it's almost like a storybook care….
I haven't given it (achieving 3,000 hits) much thought. I was taught a certain approach, how to come to the ballpark. I try not to do too much thinki….
I was always compared to the Energizer Bunny in my consecutive game streak because every day I showed up and went to work and they said he keeps goin….
I think the cloud of suspicion has been hanging over baseball for a while. I think there has been some positive things that have come out of that. Th….
I always thought being a gamer and someone who had a sense of responsibility to the game and to my teammates was the honorable thing..
Get in the game. Do the best you can. Try to make a contribution. Learn from today. Apply it to tomorrow..
The streak has become my identity; it's who I've become..
I am driven by what you are able to accomplish and how you are able to help some people. I go about it each and every day, sometimes I think I say ye….
In the end of the day, I feel pretty good about the contributions you can make..
I love baseball. The game allowed me the influence to impact kids in a positive way. This gives me a chance to talk to some social issues..
A lot of people have been telling me that I was going to be in the Hall of Fame and those are nice words and I try not to think about it, but when th….
There is a feeling when you are in Yankee Stadium that it is a very sacred ground you are walking on and you know you had the same feelings that othe….
I'd like to be remembered. I'd like to think that someday two guys will be talking in a bar and one of them will say something like, 'Yeah, he's a go….
I kept thinking, 'this must be the coolest job - I'd like to be a professional baseball player.' They were getting paid to play a game, and what a co….
There are so many great moments in Yankee Stadium. There is nothing better or no better place better to compete when you are good and the Yankees are….
The best thing you can do in the whole world is to play baseball. That's a lucky job... The passion for baseball is always going to be there..