I played for nine different teams throughout my 22-year major league career and I loved every moment of every team.

Baseball as I have said before to many... many parents it's not about wins and losses. It's about the life lessons that are learned on that baseball field. The perseverance, the hard work that it takes, dealing with failure.

Hitting in a game is no different than hitting in a home run contest. It pisses me off to say Barry Bonds is the greatest hitter. He's playing in a wussy era. The game is soft. You never get thrown at today. Last thing a hitter has to worry about today is getting hit. The first thing Hank Aaron had to worry about is: Am I going to survive this at-bat because I'm black.

The game of baseball is a game of failure because it's so difficult to play. A 300 hitter, a superstar fails seven out of ten times at the plate. So what does that tell you about the game and its difficulty?

I was brought into situations God couldn't get out of, and I got out of them.

Hitters never showed me up, as hard as I threw. And I was pretty mean out on the mound.

I played for nine different teams throughout my 22-year major league career and I loved every moment of every team.