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I've been so fortunate in life to have worked for such great organizations, with great owners and general managers and all the great players, along with the support of my family.

I've been real fortunate to be on a lot of great teams.

Throughout my career, I was blessed with great teams and great teammates.

I feel so fortunate.

I consider myself extremely lucky to have worked with so many great collaborators in my lifetime.

I had a good career. I've been very fortunate.

I've been very fortunate in my collaborators throughout my career.

I came into a strong organization, and I hope I strengthened it more and expanded its capacity to deal with some of the challenges that might not have seemed as great 10 years ago, such as H.I.V., AIDS and children affected by war.

I was also lucky to play for an owner, Bud Selig, who truly cared about his players. He'd call me into his office once in a while when he knew things weren't going so well. And it's funny. Every time I left there I always felt like something good was about to happen.

I've been very happy with all the teams I've played for. They all treated me very well.