What cracks me up is people who think I don't take baseball seriously. It's the most important thing in my life. They don't know how hard it is for me to get a bad game out of my mind. I still can't, but I'm getting better.

When you're going bad, sometimes you need to relax more. I've always been intense. I didn't need to be more intense.

I know what I did and how I accomplished it. I am proud of it and know that it was done with integrity.

I want to stay with the Orioles. I'd like to play here for the rest of my career. I don't want to go through this again in four years.

It's so funny that people specify that year because in a way it was the biggest battle for me health wise.

When I played, I had a natural ability to jump and run, and I just wanted to get bigger and heavier.

I know for a stretch, at least nine years, I was one of the best lead-off hitters in baseball