I take great pride in going out there and playing through pain.

When it’s all said and done, I want to be able to say I got the most out of my potential. I don’t want to look back, however many years from now, and say, ‘I wonder if I would have worked a little harder. I wonder if I would have done this or done that, how things would have turned out.’ I want to, when it’s all said and done, be able to put my head on my pillow and say, ‘I did everything I could do — good or bad.’

Whether you have a great game or a terrible game, tomorrow's another day and you've got to come out here and compete.

I’m always looking to improve. And every year I want to do better than the year before.

I don't care how much I'm talked about or hyped. It's still up to me to go out and perform.

Baseball is the reason I have my apartment, baseball is the reason I'm on the cover of video game. Baseball is what I do.

When I first got to the majors in 2004, female fans held up signs asking me to marry them. Those girls today were what, 13, 14? I'm 23, but that's a little young even for me.