I try to spend as much time as possible with God and my family. That's more important than anything I'm doing in baseball.

I play to represent God, something bigger than baseball.

There is only one El Hombre and that is Stan Musial.

I don't know why people say I'm not supposed to be doing what I'm doing. I'm just trying to do my job. I'm blessed, and I'm glad that I'm blessed.

I know I'm good when I'm hitting the ball the other way - that's Albert Pujols.

If they don't know the Lord, I encourage them to search for and open their hearts and their eyes. If something happens to me tomorrow, I'm going to go to heaven and that's for sure because God's promised to us in the Bible. I want to make sure that those people out there feel the same. At the end of the day as long as I glorify him and those 45,000 people know who I represent out there every time I step out on the field, that's what it's about. It's about representing God.

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