A good friend of mine took me out and had me hit off a tee. He made me understand what was my strike zone and - with my speed - the importance of making contact. So I give him a lot of credit for changing my game and making me the player I became. He showed me how to work on me and my game, and not worry about patterning myself after someone else and focusing on what they were capable of doing rather than what I was capable of doing.

I don't think I ever got proper credit about being smart about the game.

It gave me no chance. He (Nolan Ryan) just blew it (strikeout #5,000) by me. But its an honor. I'll have another paragraph in all the baseball books. I'm already in the books three or four times.

I haven't had the time to say, 'I'm retiring.' But baseball says, 'You're retired.'

I'm a walking record.

All I'm asking for is what I want.

When you're a kid, you want to be a millionaire.