It's good to know you're working for someone you're familiar with, who's a friend and he has your back and you have his back also.

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 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.

Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.

It's good to know you're working for someone you're familiar with, who's a friend and he has your back and you have his back also.

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.

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