“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 love the flow of the game. There’s a certain fluidity to basketball. I don’t enjoy watching baseball or football in the same way.

In my opinion I really haven’t done anything yet. I still have a lot to prove. I just want to prove to myself that I can play at the highest level of baseball in the world every day.

I hope baseball doesn’t get to the point where everyone’s saying, ‘He takes it [steroids]. He takes it. He takes it!’ because not all of us do. I’ve been big my whole life, and I’ll always be big. That’s all natural.

In baseball, it’s tough to get up for every single game, every single moment. In football, you have 90,000 fans screaming and the band’s playing. I do miss that

At Texas, I was a football player playing baseball. And the way I play I think I still am.

I have fun. I always have fun. I don’t really get in a hurry about anything. I just try to go with the flow and have fun, and that’s how I try to play baseball.

I grew up in the ’60s, which was a creative time, so it wasn’t that big of a stretch to go from a baseball bat to a guitar to a film camera.

There’s nothing bad that accrues from baseball.