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.

I don't love the idea of the responsibility falling on the manager. That just adds to their in-game responsibility.

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.

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

Stubbornness usually is considered a negative; but I think that trait has been a positive for me.

Whether your name is (Lou) Gehrig or (Cal) Ripken, (Joe) DiMaggio or (Jackie) Robinson, or that of some youngster who picks up his bat or puts on his glove, you are challenged by the game of baseball to do your very best day in and day out. That's all I've ever tried to do.

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