The first thing to know about playing baseball in Michigan is, Michigan's really cold.

Good teams make the playoffs, hot teams win the playoffs.

I'm a New Yorker now, and believe me, there's no comparison between the Big Apple and Kalamazoo, no similarity at all. New York City's hectic, always in fast-forward, and Kalamazoo's more laid-back, smaller, slower.

Sneak out when things go good. It bothers me when people have good games and stand in front of their locker waiting for the media, then they have bad games and sneak out the back.

When it was time for parent-teacher conferences, I remember that I was always embarrassed about what my parents would hear about me!

I play in New York, man. Criticism is part of the game. You take criticism as a challenge.

I always take criticism as a challenge. It's the way I've always looked at it.