I'm at the point in my career where to be a winner is more important than any individual things.

The first time I picked up a bat in a professional game, I hit a ball hard left-handed, and my first home run was so effortless, it surprised me.

When you go to other parks, they hang banners for the wild-card or Eastern Division or Western Division champions. Around here, they don't hang anything unless its for being world champions.

For me, I tend to sit back sometimes and just count my blessings because of how long I've played.

You fool around with different pitches playing catch, but it's not the same when you've got to face some guy with a bat in his hand.

I've always favored kids as a player. If I walked out of the locker room and there were 100 people there and 50 of them were kids, I'd sign the 50 kids before anything else.

You know, the other day I gave all of my old Angels gear to Goodwill...and Goodwill gave it back.