Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt.

For my children, they spent 15 to 20 years of their life in baseball. And Ruth and I spent so many years of our married life that that was our life. We knew nothing else.

I cant think of anything more humiliating than losing a ballgame to a guy who steals home on you. It happened to me one time against Kansas City. I had a 2-2 count on the hitter - and Amos Otis broke from third. The pitch was a ball and slid in safe. I felt like a nickel.

Baseball life is a tough life on the family.

I can honestly say it took two full years for me to get over the fact that I was no longer a baseball player.

Dick Moss, my agent. Dick became my agent in 1979 when I signed my contract with the Houston Astros.

I like to refer to my years with the Angels as the foundation of my career.