As a younger player, you always kind of play with that fear of failure.Collection: Failure
No matter what players say or people say, you want to be liked and appreciated, even if you've had a downfall.
This game, it seems when you play it the best, is when you're not really thinking a lot and just reacting and keeping it at its simplest point - just see it and hit it.
I've learned that you have to take responsibility for yourself in this game and lead yourself through it.
Winning depends on where you put your priorities. It's usually best to put them over the fence.Collection: Inspirational
We should have apologized back then and made sure we had a rule in place and gone forward. ... Steroids and all of that was a part of history. But it was a topic that everybody wanted to avoid. Nobody wanted to talk about it.Collection: Should Have
Unfortunately, the rumors are going to be a part of it. But that's OK. I'm probably tested more than anybody else. I'm not hiding anything. That stuff didn't help me hit home runs. I don't care what people say, nothing is going to give you that gift of hitting a baseball.Collection: Baseball
I'm going to play my game and be who I am. I don't think anyone puts more pressure on me than I do on myself.Collection: Thinking
Being patient, feeling comfortable, taking my walks-that's part of my game.Collection: Games
How can you not have fun going around the country playing baseball for a living? Being a baseball player is the next best thing to being a rock star.Collection: Baseball
I'm too busy having fun to be mean and nasty.Collection: Fun
People ask me, "What would you be doing without baseball?" I don't know... super-sizing fries?Collection: Baseball
What we should have done a long time ago was stand up - players, ownership, everybody - and said: 'We made a mistake.'Collection: Mistake