I'm a small-town guy, and moving to a huge city might be an adjustment.

I'm a small-town guy, and moving to a huge city might be an adjustment.

In baseball, it's tough to get up for every single game, every single moment. In football, you have 90,000 fans screaming and the band's playing. I do miss that adrenaline rush.

At Texas, I was a football player playing baseball. And the way I play I think I still am.

In my opinion I really haven't done anything yet. I still have a lot to prove. I just want to prove to myself that I can play at the highest level of baseball in the world every day.

I'm a realist. And realists don't fool themselves.

Cincinnati needs to take notes from Houston. Houston fans are among the top five fans in the game.