Baseball realizes it's not the only game in town. You have to do these kinds of things to introduce people to baseball.

Tom Cruise only makes one or two film appearances a year. A baseball player can be the hero or the goat one-hundred and sixty-two times a year.

To the people out there, baseball is a simple sport. But it is complex. It is never easy.

I chose baseball because to me baseball is the best game of all.

You have to go understand that life and baseball is littered with all kinds of obstacles and problems along the way. You have to learn how to overcome them to be successful in life.

To give you an idea what it feels like to be going in with some of the best baseball players of all-time, I mean it is fantastic. I have to say this about them, there are so many of these guys up here that were my role models, people I looked up to, people I wanted to be like.