"You don't get better as you get older in your career. It's not natural to have your best years late in your career. So I'm trying to do whatever I can to keep my body feeling good for as long as I can."

"Nobody is going to dictate our freedom."

"I'm very mechanical, so if I have one thing that's going in the wrong direction when I'm hitting, it's hard for me to get a hit."

"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."

"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."

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

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

"People, man, they love hurting people. It's not even fair."