I showed people that it's not about guessing what people can do. It's about saying, 'Here, show me what you can do.'

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

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 the same guy I've always been. I'm the same guy now as when I was hitting 50 home runs. I don't change.

The DOCF all started when I made a trip to a local hospital in the Dominican Republic. I was visiting children who had received life-saving heart care operations. I couldn't help but think that in another life, one of these kids could be my own son. If it wasn't for baseball, I may have remained in the Dominican Republic and who knows where life would have taken me. It was then that I knew that I had to use the gift that I received, to play baseball, to do whatever I could to give back.

I'm going to be done when I've decided that I'm done.

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.