"The fun time of the year"

"This is the fun time of the year. You know this is when you like to play as a player. You like to play in the playoffs and big games, it doesn't mean you're going to be successful but you try to treat it like any other game, which can be difficult at times.

No matter how you look at it, baseball is baseball, whether it's spring training or the World Series. You try to simplify things, slow the game down a little bit. I've been fortunate to play in a lot of playoff games, so the more you play in these games the more comfortable you are...

Just because you...you know I've failed a lot as well. You have success, sometimes you're going to fail. But what you try to do is when you're in those situations you think of the times that you've had success, and I don't think you can be afraid to fail. But you try to have fun, that's all I try to do is have fun, because we're playing a game."

-Derek Jeter 10-8-09