If I'm in the car after a bad game, I may think about ways I need to improve. But the second I reach home, the game's over. Work doesn't come inside with me. Same thing in reverse - I don't bring my personal life into the ballpark. Learning to keep it all separate has made life easier.

When you think positive, good things happen.

I've pretty much grown up to hide my emotions for the most part.

I don't do stuff to be a star. I do it because I feel it's important for kids, African American kids, to see an African American face that plays baseball.

I'm pretty sure that China is way bigger than the Dominican.

I didn't know if I could make it to the big leagues without going through Triple-A.

One of the things I've done is tell myself I can't let bad things that happen to me on the field, off the field, whatever, affect me.