I think baseball has moved on in many ways and the focus on the competitions on the field is really what the game is all about. It seems to be healthy. It seems more people are watching it.

I'd like to be remembered. I'd like to think that someday two guys will be talking in a bar and one of them will say something like, 'Yeah, he's a good shortstop, but he's not as good as ole Ripken was.'

You could be a kid for as long as you want when you play baseball.

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

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