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

Every year it gets tougher and tougher. Mentally and physically. That's why you need to train and prepare.

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.

I thought about it a lot (losing the 2002 NLCS). It's something you have to go home and wrap it up because if you keep thinking about it, you're going to take that to Spring Training and you're not going to be able to concentrate on your work.

I'm a teammate guy, so whatever I can do to help my team to win like I have the past two years, that's what I want to do. If it takes for me to play first base, third base, right field, I just want to win the game.

To me playing third base and left field and moving all over the place, it doesn't bother me because I still have to grab that bat and hit no matter where I play.

I don't play for records.