In life, there's a ying and a yang and a balance. And when you don't have balance, you have comedy.
I work with men a lot, and there's a yin and a yang that goes on when you work one guy and one girl. And there's things that I bring that they don't bring and things they bring and I don't bring.
To confront those fears, in a controlled environment, where there's 300 people around you going through the same thing, it's this weird sort of yin and yang.
There are songs where no matter how much you know you shouldn't - like the Ying Yang Twins' 'Shake' - I'll be in a dress, and I'll krump to it. It's horrible!
I think the combo of spin and yoga is a yin and yang thing. It's very important to have balance. I like to bring energy to yoga, and spinning gets you very connected to your core.
You can't do seven successful albums and just hate each other. Our yin and yang, and night and day, is what made us great when we went into the studio.
Even though I was never a Yankee fan until I put on the uniform, when you think about the deep history of this organization, you always knew what the Yankees represented.
I remember, my first job when I got my working papers at 13 was as a vendor at Yankee Stadium - the old Yankee Stadium, with very steep stairs in the upper decks. It was all commission-based. And I think a soft drink was 25 cents, and I think you got a 10 percent or 11 percent commission.
Yankee Stadium is a natural venue for another lesson: You won't succeed all the time. Even Ruth, Gehrig, and DiMaggio failed most of time when they stepped to the plate. Finding the right path in life, more often than not, involves some missteps.
Madison Square Garden to any New York kid is the center of the universe. Even going there as a fan is like stepping up to the plate at Yankee Stadium. You know you're in the grand cathedral.
You look at all the great players that they've had and the potential of playing in Yankee Stadium.
You know it as soon as you walk in Yankee Stadium. The electricity is there every time, every day.
Let me tell you something: I love the Yankees. And let me tell you why: because without the Yankees, there is nobody to hate.
Confidence is contagious, but so is failure. Even the Yankees will lose if you persuade them that they will.
You're always in the storm's eye, so to speak, when you're with the Yankees.
As a player, to me the Dodgers were the Yankees of the National League because... you either loved them or you hated them.
You know the best thing about having a house? You get to plant whatever you want in the yard and watch it grow.
When you're poor, you know nothing about the future, you know nothing about the world, nothing that goes on outside 300 yards around you.
Pick up a yardstick to measure your life against anyone else's, and you've just picked up a stick and beaten up your own soul.
A good column is one that sells paper. It doesn't matter how beautifully it is written and how much you admire the author... if it doesn't sell any papers, it's not a good column. It's a terrible yardstick to use, but in the newspaper business, that's the whole thing.
