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

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 don't think much about whether fans will remember me.

There are certain things I can't do, certain pitches I can't hit. You stay away from them. You try to wait for pitches you can hit. The bat speed isn't what it used to be. You make up for it by using your head, working counts, getting ahead in counts and getting pitches to hit and hitting them hard.

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.

Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.

I've been on teams that lost a hundred games in a season. I've been on teams that had a shot to make the playoffs and fizzled out at the end.