You know, my family stood for something that they believed in, and I wasn't about to turn my back on them.

I love baseball, and the door remains open.

You know, when you first come up, and you get called up to the big leagues, all you want to do is just, you just want to have a career, a nice career. You want to make a living at it

To snap my fingers and let it go away. Even if it takes the 3,000th hit with it, just let it all go away

I'm very happy for the Contreras family. They're out. Now they've got a chance to experience life the way I did as a kid. You know, his kids are going to have a real chance in life now, and the same way that I had it.

They try to say this era was a tainted era. But so many great players played in the last 15 to 20 years. This is going to be the best era in the history of the game in my opinion

It was a hard time. It was something I would love to erase from my memory.