If you don't set goals, you'll never reach them. Or like they say in golf, if you aim for nothing, you'll hit it every time. Take any player in the major leagues: I'd say just about everyone of them had a dream - a goal - to be a big-leaguer when they were kids. It wasn't an easy goal, but it was a reachable one, and that's important.

The future isn't what is used to be.

If people don't want to come to the ballpark, how are you going to stop them?

Records and achievements are made to be broken.

You have to give 100 percent in the first half of the game. If that isn't enough, in the second half, you have to give what's left.

Every time I see him, he's not there.

If there's one pitch you keep swinging at and keep missing, stop swinging at it.