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Baseball is about talent, hard work, and strategy. But at the deepest level, it's about love, integrity, and respect.

Baseball is a lot like life. It's a day-to-day existence, full of ups and downs. You make the most of your opportunities in baseball as you do in life.

I just love baseball; it's one of my favorite sports.

Baseball is a team game but, at the same time, it's a very lonely game: unlike in soccer or basketball, where players roam around, in baseball everyone has their little plot of the field to tend. When the action comes to you, the spotlight is on you but no one can help you.

Baseball and its teams are proud of the sport's long-standing role as a change agent in American culture and society.

I stand by my belief that individual performances are the most important part of baseball.

I enjoy baseball more than anything and would like to be involved with it forever, but the reality is your survival is determined by how well you compete, not by your fondness for the game.

Baseball is a spirited race of man against man, reflex against reflex. A game of inches. Every skill is measured. Every heroic, every failing is seen and cheered, or booed. And then becomes a statistic.

Baseball is my job, and I love it, but it can't be the only thing I've got going on.