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.

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

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.

The reality is that players can't play forever.

I am driven by what you are able to accomplish and how you are able to help some people. I go about it each and every day, sometimes I think I say yes too much and I am too busy in my life.

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

When things happen to you in the worst way, you live with it, you go over it, you think, 'What else could I have done?