People, man, they love hurting people. It's not even fair.

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.

You can never fall in love with a team.

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'm just another player that comes in and comes out. Everybody's time is up at some point, I don't think that's my problem. I'm just going to keep on trying like I normally do.

I'm not thinking home run, I just want to put a good swing on the ball. When you go looking for home runs, you get off of your swing. So you don't think of homers when you go up to the plate.

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