I love L.A., but you can get into a lot of trouble out here.

I don't think some athletes understand how big it is to be an athlete, what they can do with just a simple gesture of shaking a kid's hand. It can make a fan's day. It can make a fan's life.

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.

Racism is kinda old. For real.

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.

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

When you think positive, good things happen.