I owe a large part of my success to Joe Brown, who helped me both as a player and a person.

I never did allow anything to keep me from my kids. They're the most important part of my life.

Unfortunately, inner feelings and potential are often stunted by our parents, relatives or peers.

To middle-class parents, the project team may have seemed unfit for children, but it was exactly what I needed.

People like us are afraid to leave ball. What else is there to do? When baseball has been your whole life, you can't think about a future without it, so you hang on as long as you can.

Reporters often forget that athletes are human beings.

Simple pleasures were all the pleasures that I knew as a child.