My dad wasn't a power hitter, and I didn't think I'd be a power hitter because the person I wanted to be like was him, and he was the one that taught me to play the game.

You play the game a certain way, and people think your personality off the field should be just as electrifying. That's not the case.

I'm really not comfortable doing interviews in a group, in press conferences. One-on-one, I'm all right, but those press conferences at the All-Star Game, I just don't... I feel better when I'm by myself.

We teach our kids to be fair and things like that and if you make a mistake you apologize for it.

Nobody wants to win a game on a bad call.

Athletes are going to tease each other. Football players want to be baseball players. Baseball players want to be football players. Basketball players want to be baseball players, and vice versa.

I've always been an Earnhardt family fan.

If baseball was all year round, I'd play all year round.

That's the best thing about playing defense. I get to see somebody else but myself get mad.

I can't help it if I make things look easy that some people think are difficult.

It seemed like my father and I were always fighting. I know a lot of kids go through that with their families, but it was hard for me.

I've been swinging the same way since I was born. It's always worked.

I get a little tired of people telling me what might have been. I think I've done OK. I don't dwell on what might have been.

I got to play with my dad. I got to go to work with him. That's the biggest thing that ever happened to me other than the days my kids were born. That's bigger than any record I'll ever set.

I'm not some person who wants to be treated as a superstar and won't go out and help the team.

It doesn't bother me that I didn't get all the recognition. It really doesn't. I tried to keep things as honest as possible. People will either appreciate it over the years or they won't.

I'm not a player who beats his own drum.

Everyone should live where they want.

My dad hit 152 home runs and that's the person I wanted to be like. My hero growing up.

No one is perfect. Your ERA is not zero. You're not going to have 30 wins. And your batting average isn't going to be 1.000. So you don't have the right to verbally talk out about somebody. Look at yourself. Did you do everything you could do? Did you start your day off right? Are you perfect?

I grew up in baseball, so I know how hard it is to not have a dad around to see sporting events and stuff like that.

When you sign on the dotted line in any sport, your body's not going to be the same.

My mom told me to hang around with the right people. That's what I've been doing. Just taking it easy and having fun.

I guess for me, I've always lived in the moment, so I don't allow my brain to focus too far head. I'm a fly-by-the-seat kind of person, but not really.