Disadvantaged kids many times don't have the support network that we all have. I know how important my parents were in my life and many of these kids don't have that support network.

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?

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

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.

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

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

Disadvantaged kids many times don't have the support network that we all have. I know how important my parents were in my life and many of these kids don't have that support network.