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

Home runs come in bunches. You can go two weeks without one or hit four in a week. Sometimes, you just feel that stroke for a week or two weeks straight.

I have a relationship with Christ. It allows me to handle situations better. It allows me to treat people better and it allows me to have a better mental attitude towards baseball.

It's an honor to be playing with these four players and to be a part of their fifth World Series title and my first.

My dad and all my family were into baseball. His brothers, my mom's brothers, my mom's father. Baseball was just always a part of our family.

The only dream I've ever had is to become a major league baseball player.

I didn't realize how much I loved the game until I couldn't play it.