It isn't hard to be good from time to time in sports. What is tough, is being good every day.

I remember the last season I played. I went home after a ballgame one day, lay down on my bed, and tears came to my eyes. How can you explain that? It's like crying for your mother after she's gone. You cry because you love her. I cried, I guess, because I loved baseball, and I knew I had to leave it.

Maybe I was born to play ball. Maybe I truly was.

I'm a very lucky guy. I had so many people help me over the years that I never had many problems. If I had a problem, I could sit down with someone and they would explain the problem to me, and the problem become like a baseball game

I don't mean to be bashful, but I was

I think I was programmed to do good things when I came into the majors. I knew how to play.

Baseball is a game, yes. It is also a business.