"I was fortunate to play for Pete Rose and have teammates like Ken Griffey Sr., Tony Perez and Dave Concepcion. I grew up in the game with a mature attitude. I've always known it was better to be seen and not heard."

"Life is too short to worry about anything. You had better enjoy it because the next day promises nothing."

"It's like, now you're actually complaining because you're making $9 million and guys are making more? If it makes you that upset, quit. Leave the game. Go home then and try finding another job that's going to pay you that."

"People spend time worrying about things they think they have to have and lose perception of what they do have. You can have all the money and material things you want. If you aren't here to enjoy them, what good do they do?"

"It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting."

"The test of the artist does not lie in the will with which he goes to work, but in the excellence of the work he produces."

"Pebble Beach. It is tough and the lay out is amazing."

"It is a steadfast truth that the river of time washes away kings and empires, leaving only virtue intact — an essential principle for the reflective life."