I's taken me a great deal to get here. I don't plan on missing anything.

I'm not afraid to swing the bat. If they elect to pitch to me, I'm going to swing. I'm not as picky as Mr. Sheffield. I'll swing at something over my head.

We've got a lot of pressure going. This is for my Latin counterpart.

I had an opportunity with Baltimore to make it to the World Series, and that didn't happen.

We have to have great pitching performances from our guys, and we have to take it from there.

The ability to communicate with everybody, regardless of who are you are, is a great thing.

For some reason in Spring Training, everything just clicked. You don't try to do anything in Spring Training but get ready, but things fell into place.