"I just want to play baseball."
"I'm very superstitious."
"I don't think it's the intent of baseball not to have black ballplayers, but we have to find a way to get these kids back. We lost them to football. We lost them to basketball. We lost them to golf. People don't see how cool and exciting this game is."
"The NFL and NBA has done a better job than we have in showing the fun side of the sport, having people talk about it whether it's on social media, commercials or the news."
"Nobody wanted to run back kicks until you saw Billy 'White Shoes'' Johnson."
"I know my Dad's a National League guy. I'm an American League guy. I tell him all the time we got better hitters. He's like well we got better pitchers. I'm like cause you all got those easy outs at the end."
"I like how in little league they have nine kids who play the field but we have 17 kids on the roster and all 17 kids should hit. I like that we do that down here in Florida."
"I think that it takes one person in the household to be a baseball fan for people to love baseball. And if you don't love baseball as a parent, your kids are not going to love it because you're not watching it."
"I don't know what my numbers are as a DH, but the fact that you're sitting basically for three hours and 38 minutes of a baseball game, you're hoping you get four or five at-bats."
"I'm in a Catch-22. If I don't go after a ball, I'm lazy, I'm not giving it 100 percent. If I do dive for the ball - which I did, and blew out my shoulder - it's, Why did I play it so hard?"
"It doesn't matter how much money you make; it's where you feel happy."
"In baseball, there's certain things you can call someone: a fossil, graybeard, grandpa, dad, pops. But I got a chance to say it and mean it."
"Just because I made it look easy doesn't mean that it was and you don't work hard and become a Hall of Famer without working day in and day out."
"The two misconceptions of me are I didn't work hard, and that everything I made it look easy."
"Out of my 22 years, I've learned that only one team will treat you the best, and that's your first team."
"I'm damn proud to be a Seattle Mariner."
"I was just putting way too much pressure on myself. I was just trying to get that validation from my dad. It got so bad I remember my high school coach telling him not to show up to games."
"I didn't start playing golf until '94, when the strike cut the season short. Never having played as a kid definitely makes it a challenge."
"Baseball and golf have a lot of things in common, including the fact that players in both games love hitting for power. However, in both sports, trying to do so strictly with muscle strength doesn't work very well. In fact, I see a lot of guys in both baseball and golf struggle when they try to swing with tight arms."
"I might go 0 for 4 in a game, but I still had a chance to help the team by making plays in the field."
"The Hall of Fame is pretty good at preparation and getting you ready for what to expect."
"I didn't go into the Hall of Fame until I was a Hall of Famer. Three times I had been there, I never stepped foot inside."
"I don't like to be talked about, especially by somebody that doesn't know me."
"I've been taking pictures at Trey's games since he was seven."
"I enjoy photography. It's a lot of fun. It keeps me on my P's and Q's and, when you think about it, most people think photography is just going to a game. But you start to think, dang, that would be a good picture. Or you're driving along and see something and think, 'that would be nice.'"
