Early in my career, I decided I never wanted to get out of shape.

I always thought being a gamer and someone who had a sense of responsibility to the game and to my teammates was the honorable thing.

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.

I think the cloud of suspicion has been hanging over baseball for a while. I think there has been some positive things that have come out of that. There has been a drug test policy that was been implemented that got the blessings of both the Players Association and MLB. They are trying to maintain the integrity of this sport and trying to get it back, but that cloud I think will hang over a little longer.

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

The best thing you can do in the whole world is to play baseball. That's a lucky job... The passion for baseball is always going to be there.