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.'

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.

Sometimes I think sportsmanship is a little bit forgotten in place of the individual attention.

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

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

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

I was always compared to the Energizer Bunny in my consecutive game streak because every day I showed up and went to work and they said he keeps going and going and going, but a lot of people do that.