One thing anyone can go through is a slump. Unless you're Greg Maddux, it's going to happen to everybody.

I'm not trying to prove anybody wrong, I'm just trying to prove something to myself.

It's easy for me not to go to Mass on the road. But I've made a fundamental decision. I'm going to be dedicated. I'm going to make the time. I'm going to get up, if that means getting up at seven on a Sunday morning before a day game and do it, I'm going to do it.

Nobody wanted me. Scouts told me to go to school, to forget baseball. Coaches said, 'You're never going to make it.' I appreciated their honesty, because I think when someone tells you something you may not like, you have to use that as fuel for motivation.

I have gone from a player who thought he would spend his whole career with one organization to a player who's been with three organizations in a week. It's like rotisserie baseball.

One thing anyone can go through is a slump. Unless you're Greg Maddux, it's going to happen to everybody.

I feel pretty good. My body actually looks like an old banana, but it's fine.