I start thinking about life after death. I've got to quit thinking about it because it's very deep. Very deep. Sometimes you start thinking about it, and you don't feel like you want to be alive, so I don't like to get all quiet.

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 a guy that people look at me not only as a guy that hit the ball.

Nobody is going to dictate our freedom.

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

You just have to go as far as you can go. Everyone works his way up.

I guess the rules aren't for everyone.