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I just go into a game and try to look at the situation and what needs to be done. I try to execute.

There were probably a few games I played where I should not have played, because of some nagging injuries or something. I used to always talk the managers into playing me, because I wanted to play so badly.

There were a lot of players who worked just as hard as I did, and if you didn't, you didn't stay in the big leagues.

When you're in between the white lines, the game face is on. I was only focused on the task at hand - out, safe, ball, strike - leaving little time to think about how special a player, moment or game happened to be.

It's very important to go pitch-by-pitch and game-by-game and not getting too far ahead of myself. In the past, it was trying to make up for a bad game and thinking ahead and what do I have to do to fix this.

When it's deep into the season and you're not playing well, it's frustrating. This is when it's time to revisit some basics.

It was so difficult for the fans to understand my problems with baseball.

It was another day to go to work, and try to play and play well.

I think I started out trying to be very objective about the flow of the play.

When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all.