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

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.

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

As long as I can compete, I won't quit.

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

I've felt some great feelings on the baseball field... in front of 50,000 people and millions on TV... but the feeling you get when you give a kid a chance, that is a hundred times greater than that feeling.

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