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

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.

You don't get old being stupid.

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.

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.

Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.

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.