I love baseball. The game allowed me the influence to impact kids in a positive way. This gives me a chance to talk to some social issues.

In the end of the day, I feel pretty good about the contributions you can make.

A lot of people think I had such a rosy career, but I wanted to identify that one of the things that helps you have a long career is learning how to deal with adversity, how to get past it. Once I learned how to get through that, others things didn't seem so hard.

If you really think about it, the stadium can't last forever. There is going to have to come a time when it replaces.

All I really try and do is live up to my potential and do as well as I possibly could and to bring to the ballpark each and every day a good effort and do the best that I could each and every day.

I don't love the idea of the responsibility falling on the manager. That just adds to their in-game responsibility.

You could be a kid for as long as you want when you play baseball.