I've Been Playing Games For 30 Years,

The Most Important To Me Is, Theo Is A Good Person First And Foremost. And I Think That Has A Lot To Do With It. He's Not Deceitful. He's An Honest Guy, A Good Guy. There's A Lot More To This Thing Than It Being A Job For Him, Being Born And Raised Here, The Red Sox Being As Important As They Are To Him. Above All Else, Theo Understands He's A Compromiser. Theo Understands That The Clubhouse Is Our Home. He Doesn't Invade That Privacy Often. When He Does, He Doesn't Make You Uncomfortable And That Says As Much About Him As Anything.

I Played On Teams With 24 Guys Pulling The Rope One Way And One Guy Pulling The Other. I've Seen How Destructive It Can Be. I Tell Them, 'if 13 Of You Are Insanely Successful And One Fails, We All Lose.'

I've Been Playing Games For 30 Years, And I've Been A Hard-core Gamer.

The Money I Saved During Baseball Was Probably All Gone. I'm Tapped Out.

I Think I've Earned A Certain Level Of Respect, Based On My Accomplishments And My Consistency.