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In all my years of baseball, I have always expected to be traded. I never liked the idea.

The great trouble with baseball today is that most of the players are in the game for the money and that's it, not for the love of it, the excitement of it, the thrill of it.

I don't go to bed every night worried about getting back into 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.

I know I'm appreciated by how fans treat me, and the best way to treat them is play every day, hard. I sign autographs, but if I'm with someone I don't know who doesn't start the conversation, there won't be a conversation. That's just me, living my life. But I'll loosen up after baseball.

When you are away from the game and busy with other areas, you realize that the world does not revolve around baseball.

I think I understand why baseball players today are a little standoffish, because the world has changed. You don't know who's trying to take advantage of you, what people really want.

I enjoy being out with the fans, I enjoy talking baseball, but to get up and tell my life story... I'm not comfortable doing that.

In baseball, nothing surprises me. I understand this is a business.

I'm a baseball fan, but I'm not qualified to make baseball decisions, and I don't want to pretend to be.