I'm a guy that people look at me not only as a guy that hit the ball.
My mom, she wasn't like a baseball mother who knew everything about the game. She just wanted me to be happy with what I was doing.
Through the years I've been getting better and better and better, and it's what you learn though the seasons.
I swing hard all the time. That's what I've done my whole life - hit.
I showed people that it's not about guessing what people can do. It's about saying, 'Here, show me what you can do.'
Negativity doesn't help me.
The fans know that I don't give at-bats away.
I just want to play baseball.
You can never fall in love with a team.
I know in my situation, my mind works more than everything else. I've been like that my whole career.
Trust me, I play the game for the fans, my family and myself.
My mom, she's still always there for me. Always.
You can't say that being a fan is more serious, because players are trying to do better in order to get paid better.
Everybody goes through some tough times in their life, no matter what you do. Man, I've had my tough times.
All I like to do is work every day and have an idea what I want to do.
Everybody has something to prove each year. Everybody has a responsibility in this game. Even the batboy.
I'm going to be done when I've decided that I'm done.
I'm the kind of guy that I never forget my teammates.
I try to do things the right way.
What I don't want to do is just play for the sake of playing.
I'm a winner, I play to win, I want to make good things go on around me.
My whole career, my swing has always been the most important thing to me. Even when I'm taking a shower, I work on my swing.
I've always been my own hitting coach.
I just come do what I've got to do, play my game. And I don't worry if anybody likes it.
I'm the same guy I've always been. I'm the same guy now as when I was hitting 50 home runs. I don't change.
