What you do with your life and how you do it is not only a reflection on you, but on your family and all of those institutions that have helped to make you who you are.

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.

Consistency is what counts; you have to be able to do things over and over again.

There is no such thing as a bed of roses all your life.

I never smile when I have a bat in my hands. That's when you've got to be serious.

If I knew exactly what I know now and had it to do over, I'd be a switch hitter. No telling what I could have done.

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