I think I'm aware of what goes on in my mind more than some guys, and for that reason I fight more battles.

I need to have perspective. That's one of the big things former players told me, to not try to live up to anything, just live up to yourself.

When someone becomes successful or rich and famous, people perceive that person as being different. But I'm the same guy I've always been.

Some people pray to a totem pole, some people pray to a sun, some people pray to a god. It all works for them. It all comes back to what you think.

I was this 5-7 pudgy kid in high school... I wasn't a popular kid. I was an outcast.

Meyer and I have a bit in common because we're both left-handed. I think it's great that he seeks out that advice because he's not too "cool" or too uncomfortable to ask for it.

I looked up to my father when I was 7 and 8. I believed it was my calling to be in the big leagues. I'd been raised by a family that always told me I could do anything I wanted.