I take pride in the fact that you are able to make some good contributions to the sport at certain times.

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?

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

The last thing you want to do is go down in the history of All-Star game competition as the only injury (his nose was broken by Roberto Hernandez) sustained during the team picture.

You can keep going on and on about the interactions of people, which makes it a great drama and great event ,and you'll always hold that special, but if you're looking at a baseball moment, the feeling you get when you win the World Series by far exceeds anything else in the game that you're able to do.

Whether your name is (Lou) Gehrig or (Cal) Ripken, (Joe) DiMaggio or (Jackie) Robinson, or that of some youngster who picks up his bat or puts on his glove, you are challenged by the game of baseball to do your very best day in and day out. That's all I've ever tried to do.

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