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Being an impatient guy, even off the field, I would always look to score runs and score them quickly. Sometimes I panic if runs are not coming.

I remember one game when I pitched in Yankee Stadium and gave up five runs in the first inning. It would have been easy to quit, but I shut 'em out the rest of the way, and we came back and won the game.

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

To me the most important thing was stirring things up and scoring some runs so we could win a ballgame.

It would have been a helluva lot more fun if I had not hit those sixty-one home runs.

When you're in the middle of a pennant race, you can't go up there thinking about home runs.

It is the best feeling in the world to have a close game come down to just a couple of plays and you are able to do it.

Seven innings, three starts in a row, that's an improvement for me, and that's what I want to do: be out there in the game longer.

I always got nervous the nights we played in the World Series. First pitch, I was nervous. Then after that, forget it; I'd start playing.