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.

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.

The streak has become my identity; it's who I've become.

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

We consider ourselves the luckiest fans on the face of the Earth.

You can keep going on and on about the interactions of people, which makes it a great drama and great event ,and you'll always hold that special, but if you're looking at a baseball moment, the feeling you get when you win the World Series by far exceeds anything else in the game that you're able to do.

I haven't given it (achieving 3,000 hits) much thought. I was taught a certain approach, how to come to the ballpark. I try not to do too much thinking about things like that. In this society we measure success in different ways. Three thousand (hits) represents success over a career, not a season. It'll be nice to get to that point.