That's the reality of it. Everybody has a big two or three. The health of those big two or three ... there's a lot riding on it.

I love my daughter, but she had me on couscous and fixed me pastas and made me eat oatmeal every morning. Turkey burgers, turkey bacon and that kind of stuff. She wants her dad to live a long time, and I do, too.

You can tell your uncle stuff that you could not tell your dad. That is kind of the role of an uncle. I feel very much like a father sometimes but sometimes I feel like a teammate.

That's the reality of it. Everybody has a big two or three. The health of those big two or three ... there's a lot riding on it.

When you have an opportunity to take the lead and you don't, most of the time something bad happens.

You don't want to get beat, number one, and you hate getting shutout, number two, and even worse, no hits.

I think walks are overrated unless you can run... If you get a walk and put the pitcher in a stretch, that helps. But the guy who walks and can't run, most of the time they're clogging up the bases for somebody who can run.