I'm the kind of guy that I never forget my teammates.

I'm the same guy I've always been. I'm the same guy now as when I was hitting 50 home runs. I don't change.

I've always been my own hitting coach.

If I can't hit at a high level, I won't play, and I know there comes a point where my body won't be able to do that.

My mom, she's still always there for me. Always.

Sometimes when you're fighting, fighting, fighting, the mind needs some time off and you regroup and get back to normal.

The fans know that I don't give at-bats away.

Through the years I've been getting better and better and better, and it's what you learn though the seasons.

Trust me, I play the game for the fans, my family and myself.

What I don't want to do is just play for the sake of playing.

You can never fall in love with a team.

You can't say that being a fan is more serious, because players are trying to do better in order to get paid better.

You just have to go as far as you can go. Everyone works his way up.

A lot of people write books not at the end of their career. Why you gotta wait until then? When you're momentum's going, that's when people really want to get to know about you.

I start thinking about life after death. I've got to quit thinking about it because it's very deep. Very deep. Sometimes you start thinking about it, and you don't feel like you want to be alive, so I don't like to get all quiet.

Whatever country you go to, you need to definitely follow the rules. So I believe it's very important for people, wherever they go, any immigrant should know or should try to learn something about the culture.

Negativity doesn't help me.

I stress a lot, sometimes.

My mom, she wasn't like a baseball mother who knew everything about the game. She just wanted me to be happy with what I was doing.

I just come do what I've got to do, play my game. And I don't worry if anybody likes it.