If I could do it over, I'd want to come up to the big leagues like Mike Trout. He's exciting and I like watching him.

That was a very aha moment. It was, 'I'm in the big leagues.'

You have to hit the fastball to play in the big leagues.

I looked up to my father when I was 7 and 8. I believed it was my calling to be in the big leagues. I'd been raised by a family that always told me I could do anything I wanted.

Gil's been in the big leagues awhile,

I only wish I could have played in the big leagues when I was young enough to show what I could do. When an offer was given to me to join up, I was too old, and I knew it.