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You look at all the great players that they've had and the potential of playing in Yankee Stadium.

Yankee Stadium is a natural venue for another lesson: You won't succeed all the time. Even Ruth, Gehrig, and DiMaggio failed most of time when they stepped to the plate. Finding the right path in life, more often than not, involves some missteps.

Yankee Stadium was the only thing we had in the Bronx. It was an institution.

Even though I was never a Yankee fan until I put on the uniform, when you think about the deep history of this organization, you always knew what the Yankees represented.

I just wanted to go play in the big leagues. But possibly playing for the Yankees is very special.

To pitch a perfect game wearing pinstripes at Yankee Stadium, it's unbelievable. Growing up a Yankee fan, to come out here and make history, it really is a dream come true.

Whether or not anybody had invented the category in his lifetime, Babe Ruth was surely the Greatest Living Yankee almost immediately upon lofting home runs at the Polo Grounds, allowing the Yankees to build their own palace across the Harlem River.

I am a Yankees fan. I should say - have been to more Yankees games than Mets games.

I loved the opportunity to play for the Yankees, too.