Please Don't Quote Me.

A Pitcher Never Gets Me Out. I Get Myself Out. That's No Disrespect To The Pitcher, But There Should Be No Excuse For Failure. You Can't Have An Excuse To Fail.

It's Easy For Me Not To Go To Mass On The Road. But I've Made A Fundamental Decision. I'm Going To Be Dedicated. I'm Going To Make The Time. I'm Going To Get Up, If That Means Getting Up At Seven On A Sunday Morning Before A Day Game And Do It, I'm Going To Do It.

When He (roger Clemens) Threw The Bat (during Game 2 Of The 2000 World Series), I Basically Walked Out And Kept Asking Him What His Problem Was. He Really Had No Response. I Was Trying To Figure Out Whether It Was Intentional Or Not. I Was Going To Ask Him. If It Was, Then Obviously He Really No Had Response. I Was More Shocked And Confused Than Anything.

When You're 25, You Can Eat Hamburgers And Pizza And Drink Beer And Stay Out All Night And Come Out The Next Day And Drink A Couple Cups Of Coffee And Just Play. If I Did That Today, My Heart Would Stop And I'd Need A Stretcher And An Iv.

Nobody Wanted Me. Scouts Told Me To Go To School, To Forget Baseball. Coaches Said, 'you're Never Going To Make It.' I Appreciated Their Honesty, Because I Think When Someone Tells You Something You May Not Like, You Have To Use That As Fuel For Motivation.