As a younger player, you always kind of play with that fear of failure.

I'm too busy having fun to be mean and nasty.

What we should have done a long time ago was stand up - players, ownership, everybody - and said: 'We made a mistake.'

How can you not have fun going around the country playing baseball for a living? Being a baseball player is the next best thing to being a rock star.

As a younger player, you always kind of play with that fear of failure.

Winning depends on where you put your priorities. It's usually best to put them over the fence.

We should have apologized back then and made sure we had a rule in place and gone forward. ... Steroids and all of that was a part of history. But it was a topic that everybody wanted to avoid. Nobody wanted to talk about it.