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I grew up on the softball field. Every day I would take my glove and my bat with me.

Young players need to know how to take care of themselves for life after baseball.

We're all still kids when it comes to baseball.

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.

People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring.

We lived near a playground that had four baseball diamonds on it, and when I got to be 11, 12 years old, I was always over at the ballpark practicing or playing or doing something pertaining to baseball. And when I wasn't doing that, I was bouncing a rubber ball off the steps of my front porch at home.

I wanted to play baseball ever since I was 5 years old.

Baseball hasn't forgotten me. I go to a lot of old-timers games and I haven't lost a thing. I sit in the bullpen and let people throw things at me. Just like old times.

You know, when I was a young boy I used to play baseball in my back yard or in the street with my brothers or the neighborhood kids. We used broken bats and plastic golf balls and played for hours and hours.

We devote our entire lives to becoming good ball players. We take batting practice until our hands bleed.