As long as I can compete, I won't quit.

I'd like to be remembered. I'd like to think that someday two guys will be talking in a bar and one of them will say something like, 'Yeah, he's a good shortstop, but he's not as good as ole Ripken was.'

When things happen to you in the worst way, you live with it, you go over it, you think, 'What else could I have done?

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.

Disadvantaged kids many times don't have the support network that we all have. I know how important my parents were in my life and many of these kids don't have that support network.

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.