I don't expect any red carpet to the big leagues. If the opportunity comes, then it comes. But I don't think I'm owed anything.

There was Shawon Dunston and Mark Grace, and together we were a double play combination for ten years

The reason I am here, they tell me, is that I played the game a certain way, that I played the game the way it was supposed to be played.

If you're in the minor leagues, you want to get to the majors.

I don't expect any red carpet to the big leagues. If the opportunity comes, then it comes. But I don't think I'm owed anything.

My mom was at every single game I played as a kid, rain or shine

If you played the game the right way, played the game for the team, good things would happen