By doing that and being very competitive, the grown-ups started telling me even back before I started playing organized ball that I was too physical and too advanced for the kids my own age.

I would say my greatest achievement in life right now - my greatest achievement period is - and I'm still trying to achieve it - is to be a wonderful father to my kids.

Whenever I wasn't watching the planes, I was playing community baseball, football, or something like that.

Don't plan to repent at the 11th hour - you may die at 10:30.

It occurred to me in my junior year of high school. I got my first letter from a big college. I still have that letter to this day - a letter from Indiana.

I'll never worry about not being successful. I'll just take it one day at a time, one season at a time. And play as hard as I can.

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