Alex Rodriguez Last Quotations

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

I feel more accepted in this clubhouse this year. I feel like I'm one of the guys in here now. And last year, it wasn't their fault, it was my fault. I was one person trying to get to know 100 people. You're going to have a better rapport with people in your second year than your first, this is a more comfortable feeling.

Last time here, I was the biggest goat. Today, I get to be the hero.

Last time I was here, things went really bad, not only for me, but for my team. And I look at it as an opportunity to start a new year, a new chapter. And ironically enough, I come up with a game-winning hit in this situation, where last year, I was the biggest goat, and today I get to be a hero. There's ... a lesson to be learned, I guess.

I think it was the last one he threw. I'm glad he threw one. He had us talking to each other, and really nothing was said that was helpful.

We don't want to put ourselves in the situation we did last year. We put ourselves in way too big of a hole, and it was a miracle that we were able to come back and win the division. We know every loss in April shows up in September and late August.

We played so well down the stretch, ... To end in this fashion, it's disappointing. I played great baseball this year, and I played like a dog the last five games.

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.

When you have so many different opportunities and you can't deliver the big hit, it's frustrating. That was the difference. Last night we got the big blow.

There's no comfort. We know what the Boston Red Sox are all about. We saw what they did last year and that's very clear in our minds.

I'm happy for Randy, because he's taken a lot of unfair criticism and he's pitched excellent of late. And that's what we got him for: to come in here, in a hostile environment, and take a great lineup like the Red Sox and dominate them. He's the one component we didn't have last year.

I played great baseball all year, ... and I played like a dog the last five days.

It was a miracle we won the division. By the time we got to Boston last year, we were so deliriously tired because we dug too big a hole. We don't want to get ourselves in that situation again.

Along with Randy Johnson, he's been the biggest difference between last year's team and this year's team.

Even with the last pitch of the game, we were surprised the game was over. We feel we will win every game.

We've been swinging the bats progressively better the last three days. We have to work on being more consistent.

It's a great place -- the park in which I've had the most success in my career. I love that park, regardless of the last thing that happened there. I always have a short memory, which is important, because what happened yesterday is irrelevant.

The last two times I've been up here my two favorite players of all-time have introduced me, Mr. Keith Hernandez and Mr. Cal Ripken. To the New York fans, thank you very much for making me feel very welcome.