Tom Cruise only makes one or two film appearances a year. A baseball player can be the hero or the goat one-hundred and sixty-two times a year.

Made it through high school, went to the University of Minnesota.

You know, many of you kids can't relate to what it takes to get to the top rung, the top of the heap, to have success. We're looking for things that come in a minute. It just doesn't happen.

You know, heroes are ordinary people that have achieved extraordinary things in life.

I've experienced a lot of things in baseball, but I've never been traded during a strike. At least I know I'll be in a new uniform the next time I put one on.

To the people out there, baseball is a simple sport. But it is complex. It is never easy.

All good balls to hit are strikes, though not all strikes are good balls to hit.