The older you get, the things that you thought you wanted to do when you were younger, you're checking them off your list because you no longer want to them.

I did make a choice when I got away from baseball to be there to get my kids off to college.

A lot of people think I had such a rosy career, but I wanted to identify that one of the things that helps you have a long career is learning how to deal with adversity, how to get past it. Once I learned how to get through that, others things didn't seem so hard.

You could be a kid for as long as you want when you play baseball.

When things happen to you in the worst way, you live with it, you go over it, you think, 'What else could I have done?'

I lived the baseball life as a kid, with my dad in it. And I lived the baseball life as an adult, because I was in it. When I retired, I wanted the opportunity to be a little bit more flexible and home-based for my kids.