Then there's Johnny Pesky, hit me countless number of ground balls and improved my fielding so much.

This journey started about 42 years ago in a little town of Brunswick, Georgia.

I have a message for the young kids. Life is about obstacles, endeavors in life are not to be overlooked.

Humbled by the fact that never in a million years would I ever thought that I would be on the same stage with all these great Hall of Famers and enshrined to the National Baseball Hall of Fame.

I didn't get over 1300 walks without knowing the strike zone.

One guy that I wish was here right now, Ted Williams, helped me so much, our long talks, not about hitting but about fishing, one of Ted's passions, and I wish he was here today to share this with me because I owe so much to Ted Williams.

Anyone can be a father, but it takes someone special to be a dad, and that's why I call you dad, because you are so special to me. You taught me the game and you taught me how to play it right.

Then there's Johnny Pesky, hit me countless number of ground balls and improved my fielding so much.

In life, so many things are taken for granted, but one thing I can honestly say is that I took every day, enjoyed the game of putting on that uniform and playing the great game of baseball.

Looking back on those days and little leaguer, the Hall of Fame is not even a blinking star, but through baseball travels and moving up the ladder, that star begins to flicker.

A positive attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts, events and outcomes. It is a catalyst and it sparks extraordinary results.

My God... What are the headlines going to be like on Monday if the Yankees don't make the playoffs?

Our lives are not determined by what happens to us but how we react to what happens, not by what life brings us but the attitude we bring to life.

I played the game one way. I gave it everything I had. It doesn't take any ability to hustle.

The owner of the New York Yankees, Mr. George Steinbrenner who I had the greatest respect for, I want to thank him for giving me the opportunity to win that special ring in 1996.

A positive attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts, events, and outcomes. It is a catalyst, and it sparks extraordinary results.

You taught me the game and you taught me how to play it right.

Anyone can be a father but it takes someone special to be a dad and that's why I call you dad because you are so special to me.

Anyone can be a father but it takes someone special to be a dad and thats why I call you dad because you are so special to me. You taught me the game and you taught me how to play it right.

I played the game one way. I gave it everything I had. It doesnt take any ability to hustle.

I don't immerse myself in the Internet chatter because it opens you up to a whole source of danger.

Science does not know its debt to imagination.

The franking commission is not there to fact-check.

Silence, you know, is the best place to get close to spirit for me.

I think that the entertainment industry itself has a history of chasing success. Any time a hit product comes out, all the other companies start chasing after that success and trying to recreate it by putting out similar products.

I shed many a tear when the steam engines went out of style on the railroads. I'd like to seem them come back, but I realize the diesels are more efficient.

I want to add something worthwhile rather than just chucking loads of stuff into the world. I don't want to feel responsible for adding to the soup of mediocrity.

New York grew up before the automobile. And even though it's full of cars, its shape and form didn't get created around the automobile.

Kicks are my forte. I've got strong legs and high kicks. And I've got very good reach, obviously.

By the fruit the tree is to be known. An evil tree cannot bring forth good fruit.

I started school in public housing. My dad had a sixth-grade education.

It matters not what your individual position is on either war we are currently prosecuting - in Iraq or Afghanistan - certainly we can all agree protesting at military funerals is a cruel and unnecessary hardship on our military families during their most difficult hour.

Smashing heads does not open minds.

For evil deeds may better than bad words be borne.

I love when stories have something a little magical in them, and there's wonder and curiosity. Somewhere there are people living these improbable stories, and our job is to go out and find them and bring them to the page. And so, the more surprising, the more uplifting, the more sort of even inspiring a story is, I find myself gripped by those.

Sometimes you have to blame yourself before you can blame others.

Louis Braille created the code of raised dots for reading and writing that bears his name and brings literacy, independence, and productivity to the blind.

All of my life I have stayed away from violence and the instruments of violence, and have seen a legal, democratic struggle as the only means to achieve change.

The trip I made to Angola to study the prehistoric contents of the gravel beds as a means of deciding the age of the deposits and their economic potential was the first time prehistory had ever been used for such a purpose.

I always smoked cigars. I've smoked cigars with everybody in show business.

Hijab forces a man to look at a woman with respect rather than as an object.

I'm more apt to cry at something beautiful than at something sad.

Winning is never enough, and I've got to try and do it as much as I can before my time is over.

I now have five major titles, and not many athletes can say that.