My wife and I, we started a foundation about companion animal rescue, but there's a group called Performing Animal Welfare Society just outside of Sacramento... and they offered me a job as an elephant keeper.

He hasn't started working out hard yet. I don't know enough about his stroke. He missed a lot of playing time in spring training, so I don't know how quick (his return) can be.

Just because you're down to your last strike, you're not out yet. You can always do more. You'll always have more at-bats to take. That's true in baseball, in rescuing animals, and in life, generally.

I had started law school at Florida State University as a part-timer. I would go two quarters, and they allowed me to drop out to play baseball, and then I'd get readmitted in September. I was convinced I was going to be a lawyer and was using my baseball salary to pay my way through school.

Champions are required and their feats advertised everywhere, we got wrong heroes in public eye.. (in reference to Jason Dyer, 41, and his nephew Dean Rostock, 25 who saved 20 dog lives from a fire in Manchester)

You can't manage by memo. You can't stand up there and just send out edicts. I think you just gotta really personalize your relationships.