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When I first came into baseball, people didn't want to hear that a team was a business. But it is. And the better the business is run, the healthier the team on the field is going to be.

In my opinion, baseball is as big a business as anything there is. It has to be a business, the way it is conducted.

I understand business and understand the ugly face of baseball, which is the business part of baseball.

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

I always wanted to be a major-league baseball player.

Playing baseball was my dream, and no amount of money could sway my opinion.

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 always thought that there was going to be life after baseball, and so I designed that in my life I would have other interests after baseball that I would be able to step into. And I didn't realize the grip that baseball had on me and on my family.

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