I'm very modest. I know that baseball is a very humbling game.

As soon as baseball becomes a job, as soon as I stop caring, as soon as the smile goes away, I'll hang up my spikes and do something else.

People only rooted for the underdog in movies, not in middle school.

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.

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

I just want to taste what it's like to win in New York

I'm very confident in what I do, but I'd like to think I don't ever show any kind of cockiness or overconfidence.