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.

You don't get old being stupid.

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.

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.

I'm at the point in my career where to be a winner is more important than any individual things.

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