“Not everybody will become a baseball star and not everybody will make the money I’m making.”

Kids today are looking for idols, but sometimes they look too far … They don’t have to look any farther than their home because those are the people that love you. They are the real heroes.

I don’t have a no-trade clause. I figure someone is going to pick me up.

I had an opportunity with Baltimore to make it to the World Series, and that didn’t happen.

We spent a lot of money on some players.

I’m pretty much the one that goes to the mound.

The ability to communicate with everybody, regardless of who are you are, is a great thing.

I would change policy, bring back natural grass and nickel beer. Baseball is the belly-button of our society. Straighten out baseball, and you straighten out the rest of the world.

I always wanted to do a baseball book; I love baseball. The problem is that a very large part of my following is in non-baseball playing countries.

Writing is like anything – baseball playing, piano playing, sewing, hammering nails. The more you work on it, the better you get. But it seems to take a longer time to get better at writing than hammering nails.

A game of great charm in the adoption of mathematical measurements to the timing of human movements, the exactitudes and adjustments of physical ability to hazardous chance.

I love the MLB app, because I’m a pretty obsessed baseball fan.

I have played professional baseball for over half my life. From the time I picked up a baseball glove, I did not want to put it down.

commenting on baseball players who test positive for steroids: It?s an announced test, so you not only failed the steroid test, you failed the IQ test.

Don’t worry about your individual numbers. Worry about the team. If the team is successful, each of you will be successful, too.