Whether you want to or not, you do serve as a role model. People will always put more faith in baseball players than anyone else.

He's going to flip over to the Veterans Committee next year, ... It's just too bad things couldn't have happened early when he was banned from the game, coming clean. It would be a whole different story.

I wouldn't mind seeing someone erase my record of hitting into four triple plays.

I've always said when I broke in I was an average player. I had an average arm, average speed and definitely an average bat. I am still average in all of those.

I could field as long as I can remember, but hitting has been a struggle all my life.

Fifty years from now I'll be just three inches of type in a record book.