People love to say we get paid a lot of money to play a game, but it stopped being a game when you start getting paid.

My father left me with a saying that I've carried my entire life and tried to pass on to our kids: 'Tough times don't last, tough people do,'

More often than not, what you open, unwrap and install on your hard drive is not what you were told you were getting.

The things I was allowed to experience, the people I was able to call friends, teammates, mentors, coaches and opponents, the travel, all of it, are far more than anything I ever thought possible in my lifetime.

I'm a very routine-oriented guy.

You could ask any position player and they'll tell you: pitchers aren't athletes.

I'd like to think I did well. I'd like to think that, if I had a must-win game, the guys I played with would want me to have the ball. But no, I don't think I deserve to be in the Hall of Fame.