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.

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

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.

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

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.

The toughest thing in hitting shouldn't be deciding when to swing. It is, for me, deciding when not to swing. You should be swinging from the time you get into the batter's box until something says don't swing.