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

There is somebody in our lives that we could call the Energizer Bunny and we admire for those qualities.

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.

A lot of people have been telling me that I was going to be in the Hall of Fame and those are nice words and I try not to think about it, but when the call came, it made it real. It was a pretty darned good feeling.

In the end of the day, I feel pretty good about the contributions you can make.

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

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