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When I was younger, I was always taught not to make excuses.
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I've been asked to sign a forehead.
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I try to sign for as many kids as possible. Kids come first, and I'll always sign for a kid before an adult. It's funny, because I was never big into autographs as a kid. The only player who I ever wanted an autograph from was Dave Winfield.
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You tell me you want to race down the street, I'm going to try to beat you. My grandmother asks me to race down the street, I'm going to try to beat her. And I'll probably enjoy it. Competitive to a fault, sometimes.
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You can't be sensitive, because you're going to get criticized. I don't care who you are, you're going to get criticized.
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Don't get me wrong; it's not like I didn't go out and have fun. But there's been a lot of players that come to New York and get caught up in the lifestyle, and before you know it, they're sent away to another team because it affected their performance.
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I think, a lot of times, players get in trouble when they're asked questions and they think they have to find a way to answer it. If you ask me a question and I say, 'I don't know,' there's really no follow-up.
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You have to assume that everything you do is public knowledge. Everything. Because now everyone is a reporter. Everyone is a photographer.
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I want to own a team one day. You know, that's my next goal.
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You can't quantify everything a player does to win games.
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I looked up to my parents because they were very successful in what they wanted to do. I was lucky; I didn't have to look far for role models.
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I don't really see myself getting a Twitter account. Nothing against it. I get it. I especially get it for businesses.
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I get nervous watching teammates. I get nervous for them. Late in the game, pressure situation, I'm nervous for them.
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Walking around sometimes, I would love to just be able to watch people, see how they act. Sometimes I would love to be invisible.
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When it was time for parent-teacher conferences, I remember that I was always embarrassed about what my parents would hear about me!
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I have feelings. I'm not emotionally stunted.
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You gotta have fun.
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I wish I trusted people more. But when I meet someone, the first thing is, 'What does this person want?' And I put up a defense mechanism. But I've always been that way.
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Not everybody's a baseball fan.
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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.
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The number one priority is playing baseball. There are so many people in New York trying to get you to do this and get you to do that, which is fine, but you have to take care of yourself.
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I attribute much of my success in New York to my ability to understand and avoid unnecessary distractions.
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The thing that means the most to me is being remembered as a Yankee, because that's what I've always wanted to be, was to be a Yankee.
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I always take criticism as a challenge. It's the way I've always looked at it.
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