Boys, baseball is a game where you gotta have fun. You do that by winning.

Every manager reads Rule 21 [which prohibits betting on baseball] to every player,

All of us had to go by that rule, damn it. If he did [bet on baseball], then fess up and come clean and he would be accepted back.

When baseball is no longer fun, it's no longer a game.

I did grow up with Kurt Russell as a Dad, who was a professional baseball player, with all boys. All I wanted to do was be the best athlete. I was the kind of person that in high school, if I didn't beat the record, I was very disappointed in myself. I finally got to do that in my work.

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