If a tie is like kissing your sister, losing is like kissing you grandmother with her teeth out.

But that's the kind of team we were that year. We were seven games out at the All-Star break. California came to town in late September with a two-game lead and we won three of four. We won every game we had to win. We clinched on a Friday night in extra innings. We felt unbeatable.

When you looked at Toronto on paper and us on paper, we had maybe two or three position players who could have made their team,

When you get in that situation you simplify the approach, ... You play as hard as you can, win a game and come back to play another game. You don't think about having to win three games. You don't get ahead of yourself. You think about winning one game.

If I stay healthy, I have a chance to collect 3,000 hits and 1,000 errors.

Even today, if the Royals win six games all year, if they're going to go 6-156, I hope they beat the Yankees six times.