The catcher is in the middle of everything. He sees it best.

Well, you know, Pudge Rodriguez, obviously is as good as it gets.

There are too many false things in the world, and I don't want to be a part of them. If you say what you think, you're called cocky or conceited. But if you have an objective in life, you shouldn't be afraid to stand up and say it. In the second grade, they asked us what we wanted to be. I said I wanted to be a ball player and they laughed. In the eighth grade, they asked the same question, and I said a ball player and they laughed a little more. By the eleventh grade, no one was laughing.

They only delivered the newspaper once a week where I lived in Oklahoma, and those people lived and died with the box score of my games. My biggest moment was winning the World Series because everyone in my town was able to feel he was a world champion.

I've seldom seen a horny player walk into a bar and not let out exactly what he did for a living.

So, yeah, I can say I always set my expectations so high that I had a lot to live up to.

Slumps are like a soft bed. They're easy to get into and hard to get out of.