Baseball has been very good to me.

If you have a chance to accomplish something that will make things better for people coming behind you, and you don't do that, you are wasting your time on this earth.

Pitch me outside, I will hit .400. Pitch me inside, and you will not find the ball.

My father used to say, 'I want you to be a good man; I want you to learn how to work. And I want you to be a serious person.' I grew up with that in my mind.

I was born to play baseball.

I am convinced that God wanted me to be a baseball player.