You're going to be friends with people longer than you're going to be teammates in this game.

There's nothing I can really do but keep going out there and swinging.

In the past, my success has come with sticking to one plan. That usually works. Obviously it's going to falter, and I'm going to go into slumps here and there, but stick with the plan, and hopefully it will come out successful more times than not.

I'm going to go out there and just keep trying to get better.

You got to put the personal stuff away and see the business side of it.

It's just so much fun to relax and just play baseball for a living. It's a great time in my life. I'm never going to forget it, and it's very humbling.