The streak has become my identity; it's who I've become.

Sometimes I think sportsmanship is a little bit forgotten in place of the individual attention.

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.

I think Nick Markakis is a perennial All-Star, and nobody knows about him. I think people are learning about how good he is.

I've felt some great feelings on the baseball field... in front of 50,000 people and millions on TV... but the feeling you get when you give a kid a chance, that is a hundred times greater than that feeling.

My approach to every game was to try to erase the games that were before and try to focus on the game at hand.