Your job as a baseball player is to come to the park ready to play every day, and the manager, it's his job to make those decisions about who plays.

I kept thinking, 'this must be the coolest job - I'd like to be a professional baseball player.' They were getting paid to play a game, and what a cool lifestyle that was.

When you're an athlete and you play every day and are conditioning yourself every year, the aging is gradual.

You could be a kid for as long as you want when you play baseball.

I'm not an athlete, I'm a baseball player.

All I really try and do is live up to my potential and do as well as I possibly could and to bring to the ballpark each and every day a good effort and do the best that I could each and every day.