I want to be known as a good major-leaguer, and good major-leaguers work to become good.

When you think small and up the middle, good things happen.

Winners live in the present tense. People who come up short are consumed with future or past. I want to be living in the now.

I want to be the best, and the best work. You have to earn what you get, and you have to work to keep it.

It's tougher when you're established. Before, I'd see 13, 14, 15 pitches that I could drive in a game. Now, I see one, two or three, so I have to be better.

No player should have to go through what I have been dealing with, and I am exhausting all options to ensure not only that I get justice, but that players' contracts and rights are protected through the next round of bargaining.

I've never felt overmatched on the baseball field. I've always been a very strong, dominant position. And I felt that if I did my work as I've done since I was, you know, a rookie back in Seattle, I didn't have a problem competing at any level. So, no.