Enjoy your sweat because hard work doesn't guarantee success, but without it you don't have a chance.
- Alex Rodriguez Quote

I just don't see the light. Where is the light? What am I in this for?
- Alex Rodriguez Quote

"I kept thinking my father would come back,"
"But he never did." 
- Alex Rodriguez Quote (Mens Vogue, April 2008)

It's tougher when you're established. Before, I'd see 13, 14, 15 pitches that I could drive in a game. Now, I see one, two or three, so I have to be better.
- Alex Rodriguez Quote

I truly believe my job starts the minute I leave the baseball field. Going out and catching ground balls and hitting, that’s a job, and that’s what I’ve wanted to do ever since I was a kid. But when you think about leaving that field, that’s when the job and the demands really start. In New York, Seattle, every city. The community, the media, business stuff. You have to stay on a narrow path.
- Alex Rodriguez Quote (Baseball America, February 2004)

This is how I define grace: you're on the main stage, and it looks like it has been rehearsed 100 times, everything goes so smoothly. That's where I get my confidence and success, from knowing that I have an edge because I know I'm prepared.
- Alex Rodriguez Quote

We share a lot of the same interests. We have a lot of similarities, being young shortstops in the league. We share a lot of the same demands on us. I actually admire what he does, how he goes about his business. More importantly, he’s a great player, but he’s a great person as well. The first thing when I wake up in the morning, I check the box score to see how Derek Jeter did. I’ll ask my mom, ‘How’s Derek doing?’ because she’s on the East Coast and whatever. A lot of times when we’re ready to go out on the field, when our game starts, the Yankee game’s always on TV. So I’m there watching him.
- Alex Rodriguez Quote (Baseball America, February 2004)

Winners live in the present tense. People who come up short are consumed with future or past. I want to be living in the now.
- Alex Rodriguez Quote