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.

Get in the game. Do the best you can. Try to make a contribution. Learn from today. Apply it to tomorrow.

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.

Leadership isn't about simply being in charge and treating your people like soldiers and barking orders. Leadership is sharing your knowledge and your direction so that others grow and reach their potential.

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.'

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

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