Listen to your parents, do your homework and listen to your teachers. Those are the real heroes.

I like to be like the old-school guys. They played hard, man, and they played from the heart. They didn't play to just get checks.

This is totally unexpected. I thought I'd be in the NBA or the NFL. I never thought baseball. It's kind of like a surprise. I'm happy it happened.

Whenever I hit a ball in the gap, I'm thinking the extra bases. I never slow down. That's the only way you're going to get triples.

You get older and more mature ... you just kind of go with the flow.

Whatever happened in the past doesn't really matter anymore to us right now.

I want to develop every base of my game-stealing bases, hitting, being a better fielder.