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 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.

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

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

Ultimately, at the end of the day, you couldn't say you were better than the other person because you knew you had a secret. You knew you had cheated.

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.

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.