My father always told me that to be successful at anything, whether it was baseball or tiddlywinks, you have to be willing to pay the price. You have to be willing to do more than the kid down the street if you want to be better than he is.

I'll be a Houston Astro no matter what ... I would certainly want to leave myself open to a return to the team if that made sense for the organization and for me as well.

God has given me a lot of ability to play the game of baseball.

The overriding thing has to be a love for people. If you don't love people, you don't care if we live in a morally degrading society. Christ is about love, and that's what we want to be about as well.

It is, ... kind of a softball atmosphere out there.

I've always enjoyed baseball, but even when I was a kid I can remember viewing it with a businesslike approach.

Agile, athletic, sleek-all these things describe my game!