It is better to give a lick than receive one. If anybody got in my way, I tried to run right through them.

So you have to be more mentally focused in baseball.

The only people I know getting in high places by running their mouth are politicians.

Just let me do what I'm doing, and then when all of this is up, then you can say how my career was. Don't try to sum up my career in one or two seasons. Let me finish it first.

If my mother put on a helmet and shoulder pads and a uniform that wasn't the same as the one I was wearing, I'd run over her if she was in my way. And I love my mother.

Growing up as a kid, the back of my house faced a little community airport about four or five miles from my house.

I took a lot of things for granted - especially how I treated my body.