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

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

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

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

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.

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

I am driven by what you are able to accomplish and how you are able to help some people. I go about it each and every day, sometimes I think I say yes too much and I am too busy in my life.