On-base percentage is great if you can score runs and do something with that on-base percentage. Clogging up the bases isn't that great to me. The problem we have to address more than anything is the home run problem.

I'm a strong man, and usually I get over hurts and it makes me stronger when I come back.

I'm not a guy that sits around and does nothing.

I love watching American League games, you know what I mean?

I'm not sure where my career is going here in Cincinnati.

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.

That's what baseball is all about right there, a matter of will.