You realize that baseball isn't your life any more. It's part of it, it's not your life. That's one of the biggest changes I've gotten from it.

It's tough when one of your best friends in baseball does it. It's bittersweet.

We'll just have to get to Cleveland and play a little better baseball.

I'm sure he's getting a billion phone calls. I'm sure he's savoring the moment.

Whenever you've got your pitcher out there throwing strikes, you've got to come up with some big plays sometimes to help the pitchers out.

We had (Carlos) Beltran and (Jeff) Kent and (Jeff) Bagwell, and they could all put us ahead with one swing. This year, we rely on pitching, we play defense and we look for timely hitting. The biggest thing is, we're not relying on one person.