Different styles work for different guys... If you can handle shortstop and hit, teams will find a way to pencil you into the lineup.

I haven't given it (achieving 3,000 hits) much thought. I was taught a certain approach, how to come to the ballpark. I try not to do too much thinking about things like that. In this society we measure success in different ways. Three thousand (hits) represents success over a career, not a season. It'll be nice to get to that point.

I take pride in the fact that you are able to make some good contributions to the sport at certain times.

Stubbornness usually is considered a negative; but I think that trait has been a positive for me.

A lot of people have been telling me that I was going to be in the Hall of Fame and those are nice words and I try not to think about it, but when the call came, it made it real. It was a pretty darned good feeling.

What keeps me going? I guess it's just a desire to keep trying to contribute and do things in life.

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.