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Baseball is the life.

Baseball's my life.

I've played for teams that were family-oriented organizations. They made you feel like family. The Yankees are strictly a business. Baseball is your life and everything else is secondary.

Baseball is a hard game. There's going to be ups and downs.

My dad and all my family were into baseball. His brothers, my mom's brothers, my mom's father. Baseball was just always a part of our family.

Baseball is a lot like life. It's a day-to-day existence, full of ups and downs. You make the most of your opportunities in baseball as you do in life.

The sentimentality of baseball is very deeply rooted in the American baseball fan. It is the one sport that is transmitted from fathers to sons.

Baseball represents family. It represents my childhood.

To me, baseball has always been a reflection of life. Like life, it adjusts. It survives everything.

There's nothing to it. Baseball isn't that tough to play.