Every season has its peaks and valleys. What you have to try to do is eliminate the Grand Canyon.

The biggest adjustment from the minors was learning to spend $45 in meal money.

If someone from Germany or somewhere, who had no idea what baseball was, saw Kruk play, he'd wonder what the beer truck driver was doing playing first base.

With the Cardinals everybody would be reading the business section to see what their stocks were doing. You get to this locker room (Pirates) in the morning and everybody is looking at the sports page to see if Hulk Hogan won.

They wanted me to play third like Brooks so I did play like Brooks - Mel Brooks.

I have an Alka-Seltzer bat. You know-plop, plop, fizz, fizz, when the pitcher sees me walking up there he says, 'Oh, what a relief it is'.

I always respected Barry Bonds, and I wanted to let him know that I did in a certain way.