You get caught up in hitting home runs and seeing how far you can hit them, and your swing changes.

I think you start hitting home runs, and you start getting caught up in seeing how far you can hit them. They're fun, but you really only have to hit them a foot over the fence. They all count the same.

I'm the same guy I've always been. I'm the same guy now as when I was hitting 50 home runs. I don't change.

The questions don't happen when you hit 30 homers, right? If you hit 30 home runs, you hit 40 doubles, I don't think anybody questions your conditioning or your offseason program.

The key to hitting a lot of home runs as a player at Kauffman Stadium is that you'd better run into some on the road.

When you're in the middle of a pennant race, you can't go up there thinking about home runs.