Being patient, feeling comfortable, taking my walks-that's part of my game.

Unfortunately, the rumors are going to be a part of it. But that's OK. I'm probably tested more than anybody else. I'm not hiding anything. That stuff didn't help me hit home runs. I don't care what people say, nothing is going to give you that gift of hitting a baseball.

As a younger player, you always kind of play with that fear of failure.

How can you not have fun going around the country playing baseball for a living? Being a baseball player is the next best thing to being a rock star.

I'm too busy having fun to be mean and nasty.

We should have apologized back then and made sure we had a rule in place and gone forward. ... Steroids and all of that was a part of history. But it was a topic that everybody wanted to avoid. Nobody wanted to talk about it.

No matter what players say or people say, you want to be liked and appreciated, even if you've had a downfall.

People ask me, What would you be doing without baseball? I don't know... super-sizing fries?