Any time you think you have the game conquered, the game will turn around and punch you right in the nose.

I could ask the Phillies to keep me on to add to my statistics, but my love for the game won't let me do that.

If you're associated with the Philadelphia media or town, you look for negatives. I don't know if there's something about their upbringing or they have too many hoagies, or too much cream cheese.

If you could equate the amount of time and effort put in mentally and physically into succeeding on the baseball field and measured it by the dirt on your uniform, mine would have been black.

Any time you think you have the game conquered, the game will turn around and punch you right in the nose.

It isn't that hard to get RBI's when you're hitting home runs, you generally get a least one.

You're trying your damndest, you strike out and they boo you. I act like it doesn't bother me, like I don't hear anything the fans say, but the truth is I hear every word of it and it kills me.