It's a mere moment in a man's life between an All-Star game and an old-timer's game.

Statistics are used much like a drunk uses a lamppost: for support, not illumination.

When I was very small, maybe 8 years old, we had a big radio that stood on four legs, and it had a cross piece underneath it, and I used to take a pillow and crawl under the radio.

It is kind of lovely to be sitting alone, just thinking, very quiet, no one around. I don't feel alone or left out.

That is the way this game is -- you win, you lose, you celebrate and you suffer.

There's that old saying: Squeeze the juice out of life before life squeezes the juice out of you. I will try to squeeze the remaining juice out of life.

All my life I've worked and I was so lucky to go from a radio station in Washington to the Dodgers and of course, it never stopped. For me to suddenly put the key in the ignition and turn the engine off, it's kind of a frightening thought. I put the key in and left it there, God willing, for another year.