I can't recall a day this year or last when I did not hear the name of Babe Ruth.

I'm sure glad this isn't my home ball park.

I don't feel right unless I have a sport to play or at least a way to work up a sweat.

The first thing baseball wants to do is make you a superstar and then say that you owe baseball something. I don't owe baseball anything. Baseball owes me.

In playing ball, and in life, a person occasionally gets the opportunity to do something great. When that time comes, only two things matter: being prepared to seize the moment and having the courage to take your best swing.

I've tried a lot of things in the off-season, but the only thing I really know is baseball.

I think about how a guy mentally prepared himself to do battle, to go out and face the pitcher. I think so many hitters do not know how to get themselves prepared to play or hit against a pitcher. You have to mentally be prepared to hit against all pitchers.