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.

Philadelphia is the only city, where you can experience the thrill of victory and the agony of reading about it the next day.

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.

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.

Pete Rose is the most likable arrogant person I've ever met.

I don't think I can get into my deep inner thoughts about hitting. It's like talking about religion.

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.