452 Quotes by Alex Rodriguez

We know he's got a very fine arm, and he throws 96-97 and throws all his body at you. I took some good swings, he challenged me, and you tip your cap.

We have to get better. We're a better team. We know what our potential is. Certainly I need to do a lot more offensively. I can only speak for myself. I've got to step up to the plate and do my job.

When your on-base percentage is over .420 and you have a high strikeout total, ... that's better than hitting 7 home runs and driving in 40 runs. To me, the name of the game is getting on base and scoring runs.

We were totally out of gas trying to hold off the Red Sox. And that happened because we didn't play well at the start of the year. We came out of spring training this year knowing we need to play well right from the get-go.

We've been in postseason mode here for about a month, kind of similar to what the Red Sox were last year. I think it does help us.

We've been in postseason mode for 10 days now.

We're gonna sleep on it and see how it is in the morning, ... I've never had this before, so it's kind of a new thing for me.

Last year was the toughest year of my whole career. I feel a lot more comfortable in New York this year.

Shock. It was shock. You almost feel you have three or four innings to play, but you go home. . . . We feel baseball is best in the U.S. and it's difficult not to carry that out.