Nicknames are baseball, names like Zeke and Pie and Kiki and Home Run and Cracker and Dizzy and Dazzy.

Baseball is a ballet without music. Drama without words.

Everybody in the minor leagues - if you're a player, an announcer, whatever - wants to be in the big leagues.

I had a job to do, and I did it all these years to the best of my ability. That's what I'd like to leave behind as I finish my final game in Toronto.

I praise the Lord here today. I know that all my talent and all my ability comes from him, and without him I'm nothing and I thank him for his great blessing.

Anything can happen. That's the beauty of creating.

I have great faith that Heaven's there and I'll see my brothers and my mom and dad when I get there.