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.

I take pride in the fact that you are able to make some good contributions to the sport at certain times.

There is somebody in our lives that we could call the Energizer Bunny and we admire for those qualities.

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

What keeps me going? I guess it's just a desire to keep trying to contribute and do things in life.

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.