I'm definitely not the most graceful person out there. I've always been taught to play hard. I don't know how not to play hard. But for some guys it just looks easier. For me, it's not that natural.

I've always been taught to play the game hard. Baseball is such a tough game, it really humbles you at times, you just have to try not to get too high or too low.

The majority of the time with two strikes I'll choke up on the bat a little bit to try to stay as short as possible. It doesn't always work out like that, but that's the goal.

It took us a little while, but we swung the bats well tonight.

I never want to look in the mirror and say, 'What if? What if I had run harder? What if I had dived for that groundball?'

It's pretty self-explanatory. If we play well, we know what our picture is. If we don't play well, we'll know what our picture is.

You're going to bat so many times during a season and it's not worth getting mad about. I still get frustrated, but I try not to let the other team know that.