You don't get better as you get older in your career. It's not natural to have your best years late in your career. So I'm trying to do whatever I can to keep my body feeling good for as long as I can.

I try to be as quiet as I can at the plate, but still aggressive.

Some people think I'm mean, until they get to know me.

What I don't want to do is just play for the sake of playing.

You can't say that being a fan is more serious, because players are trying to do better in order to get paid better.

I'm a winner, I play to win, I want to make good things go on around me.

It doesn't matter if we are down 3-0. We just have got to keep the faith like that one piece you were saying in "Keep on Going," because the game is not over till the last out.