This is our f---g city. And nobody is going to dictate our freedom.

I've always been my own hitting coach.

I swing hard all the time. That's what I've done my whole life-hit.

I just come do what I've got to do, play my game. And I don't worry if anybody likes it.

A lot of people write books not at the end of their career. Why you gotta wait until then? When you're momentum's going, that's when people really want to get to know about you.

I'm just trying to work hard every day, trying to be a better player and one day, to be right there with them, one of those special hitters.

I just want to play baseball.