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 always thought being a gamer and someone who had a sense of responsibility to the game and to my teammates was the honorable thing.

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

I think Nick Markakis is a perennial All-Star, and nobody knows about him. I think people are learning about how good he is.

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.'

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

Early in my career, I decided I never wanted to get out of shape.