If you ask my wife, she says I play too much golf. I usually play about four times a week.

I just try to keep normal days, day in and day out.

Sometimes I'm like, Wow, 'Criminal Minds' is deep.

I just want to play baseball.

I had more offers in football than baseball.

I'd have probably gone to Michigan. Only because one of my friends, Vada Murray, who passed away, went to Michigan and as a freshman and sophomore he was my big brother at Moeller.

You're only a first-round pick for one year.

There are more second-, third-, fourth-, fifth- and so on in the big leagues than first-round picks.

I went out there and played as hard as I could because that's the only way I know how to play.

I've been taking pictures at Trey's games since he was seven.

I don't like to be talked about, especially by somebody that doesn't know me.

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.

The Hall of Fame is pretty good at preparation and getting you ready for what to expect.

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.

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 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.

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'm damn proud to be a Seattle Mariner.

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 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?

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 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 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 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.