Anyone can forget about talent, but if you're a good person, your name will be remembered a long time.

Michael Jordan told me the way he kept the crown was by always outworking everyone else because he knew everyone was always coming after him. You can sneak up on people when you are 18, 19, 20. 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.

Playing the game was the easy part. The real work was in the preparation.

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.

Some things are meant to be and if it was, you will know it.

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

I've done a lot of growing up and realized a lot of things.