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.

I think hitting is more a mentality than a philosophy. A philosophy is somebody telling you the way they think it should be. Well, different people believe in different things. My thing is this: Be ready to hit.

Individual statistics, plate time and everything tend to come, but the most enjoyment I get out of baseball is actually winning.

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.

I have always loved the Bay Area. I spent a lot of time in the Bay Area. I started my career there. That's a huge part of the excitement for me.

I used to lead off when I was a rookie. I've always been able to bunt.