When I go home my mother still makes me take out the garbage.

My inspiration was the game itself, not any individual player in it.

I love the game of baseball.

That’s basically what I’m doing when I’m tapping them – getting my toes to the end of my shoes.

Back then, my idol was Bugs Bunny, because I saw a cartoon of him playing ball – you know, the one where he plays every position himself with nobody else on the field but him? Now that I think of it, Bugs is still my idol. You have to love a ballplayer like that.

You know it as soon as you walk in Yankee Stadium. The electricity is there every time, every day.