As long as I can compete, I won't quit. Reaching three-thousand is not the finish line as long as I can contribute.

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?

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

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

If you really think about it, the stadium can't last forever. There is going to have to come a time when it replaces.

The last thing you want to do is go down in the history of All-Star game competition as the only injury (his nose was broken by Roberto Hernandez) sustained during the team picture.