“Derek Jeter used to come to me and try to tell you what Joe Torre is a...” — Gary Sheffield Quote

“Derek Jeter used to come to me and try to tell you what Joe Torre is all about, he's a good man, he's this, he's that, but like I tell Derek Jeter, that's you. It's one thing that they treat you a certain way; you don't feel what other people feel.”

“My dad's a bodybuilder. My whole life I've been taught to train the hard way. I believe in earning strength, not buying it. My grandfather raised me old school: In baseball, you work for whatever you get.”

“In L.A., wives can fly on the plane; with the Yankees, they can't. With other teams, the wives always have functions to bring them together. Not here. You don't know what half the wives look like.”

“There are times when I don't take roles because I don't want to be perceived a certain way.”

“If I get tickled in a certain way, I actually lose the ability to stand. I don't mean to, but something happens to my knees, and I fall on the ground.”

“When you have a lot of people telling you what you are and perceiving you in a certain way, it's difficult to find your own identity.”