It doesn't matter if I hit a home run. It doesn't matter if we win a game. It doesn't matter if I go four for four. Whatever happens at the end of the day, as long as I glorify His name, that's what it's all about.

I have five young children, and I take being a role model very seriously.

What I lose today I can't make up tomorrow. I have to do it today.

I hope by the time that I'm done in this game, I can have half the numbers Stan Musial had in his career.

At the end of the day, when all is said and done playing this game ... it doesn't matter what you did in the field, it's what you do off the field and the lives that you touch off the field.

It doesn't matter the numbers, it doesn't matter the records, it doesn't matter the money that you make. What matters is to raise that trophy and to be able to bring that smile to the city of St. Louis.

I believe it is my responsibility to do what I can for children and people with Down syndrome as well as in my native Dominican Republic.