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 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.

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've got a fastball, change-up, forkball, curve, slider, knuckle-slider, knuckle-curve, I had about seven pitches I could have used at any time.

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

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

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.