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 had a marvelous baseball career and after my baseball career, there is an abundance of opportunity out there.

I was always compared to the Energizer Bunny in my consecutive game streak because every day I showed up and went to work and they said he keeps going and going and going, but a lot of people do that.

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?

The reality is that players can't play forever.

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

In the end of the day, I feel pretty good about the contributions you can make.