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

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.

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

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

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 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.

I kept thinking, 'this must be the coolest job - I'd like to be a professional baseball player.' They were getting paid to play a game, and what a cool lifestyle that was.