It's very hard to always expect to do the things we're supposed to do as a team, |
Joe is going to have a little more fun now that everybody is here. We're not going to miss too many games. We have to work on playing as a team. That's what I have to assume. |
Joe is the kind of person that will not show his emotions, |
Joe is the kind of person that will not show his emotions. He probably could have been the greatest poker player alive if he had chosen to do that. He's the epitome of that phrase: 'Never let them see you sweat. |
Most definitely this home run that I hit was very important ? it was a milestone in my career... I felt that I was playing the World Series in the month of March. |
My fault. Obviously a brain cramp. I had nowhere to go. It was just a mental mistake. |
My future is going to be determined in a great way on how we finish this year. So I've got to take care of the present now, and hopefully the future will take care of itself. |
My mom was an English teacher. Academics were a really high priority in my house. If I didn't have good grades, she'd put me under the table. |
Oh yeah, that was on my mind. I was thinking how it would have been if I were playing for the Red Sox and I was going back to Yankee Stadium. It would have been very interesting to see. |
Once I'm done with baseball, I'm done with baseball. That's why it was important to me to stick with this club. They were offering me the role that Ruben Sierra had last year. It's going to be a little bit different for me. I'm at the stage of my career where I can still help the team win. |
One thing I've got going for me is I'm a baseball player playing a guitar. I'm not a renowned jazz guitarist. There should be people who are just happy to see me up there playing. |
Right now, we have more important things to worry about than my personal future, ... My future will be determined, in a great way, by how we finish the season. |
Teams modeled themselves after us. |
That's what I have to live with, man. |
The ball was in my court. It was just a question of whether I would accept the role they had for me. ... To play for another team, it would have been a very difficult situation. I'd like to be in a position to retire as a Yankee. |