Baseball is a game of failure. There are plenty of opportunities to be down, or to feel sorry for yourself, or to be upset at somebody or upset at yourself.

I want to be the player who hits home runs, drives in runs.

I always lift weights very heavy and spend a lot of time in the weight room.

I think everybody out there on the American team is out of their element. That's not an excuse. That's the way it is. It's early in the spring. A lot of guys are not as (locked-in) as they could be.

My biggest thing is I need to see a lot of pitches, which I did today. That's good. The more pitches you see, the better your timing is going to be. But it's going to be impossible to see enough pitches. No matter how many pitches you see, it's still going to be March 6.

My first postseason home run was a walk-off in the Division Series. That was just a special moment in my career.

You can never pat yourself on the back during the season. Then you get complacent, stop working and let yourself slide.