“I rarely hit home runs in batting practice, and usually when I do feel that good, I'll have a bad game."

"Taking BP consistently, finding a good rhythm, it's going to give you a better chance of making good contact. You're going to hit it at the same point in a game, just 100 times faster."

"When I was in the minor leagues, they said I probably wouldn't make it, and the reason I wouldn't make it was because of my glove."

"I'm not a guy who is going to make a lot of noise. I hope to lead by example."

“I don't look at leadership as a responsibility. I look at it as an opportunity to help the team get better…I feel I've taken steps in that direction, but I probably need to do more of it. But you've got to find people who want to respond and take your conversations as a positive instead of a negative.''

“Ultimately, if you are going to be a leader, you have to play hard every day. In baseball you can't jump up and down and yell and scream. It's different when you are only playing once a week. We're playing every day. We spend so much time with each other. Busting your butt everyday is the best leadership.”

“The reason we are at the ballpark is to win that day's game, and we don't need to be concerned with anything else during the time we are in uniform. It makes things a lot simpler, a lot easier.”

“I want people to expect more from me because I expect more. If you don't set goals high, you're not trying.”

“It's funny, I was considered a fast quarterback but a slow first baseman. I've never been able to figure that out.”

“I'm not a person who is satisfied with what I do. I'm a person who wants to work to keep getting better."

“I really enjoyed high-school football, but I didn’t really enjoy college football. I liked to play the games, but I didn't like the practice. In baseball, I enjoy the practice almost as much as the games.”

“When I first came up to the majors and I’d have a bad day, I’d punish myself. I would do something like not eat dinner. Now I’ve come to appreciate that we play 162 games a year, and you’re going to have bad days. And not eating dinner hurts, it doesn’t help.”

“Is Coors Field a good park to hit in? Yeah. So are Wrigley Field and Camden Yards. I didn’t design Coors Field—I just play there.”

"Tarring a highway in 90-degree heat is hard work. This is baseball. Something I love.”

“I’m very tough on myself. I definitely look at the negative too much.”

“I hate the ballplayer who says, ‘I did everything I could have possibly done.’ Because if you didn’t win it all, you obviously didn’t do everything you could have done.”

“I feel like I have alot of baseball ahead of me.”

“I have never used steroids. Never.”

“I always had just a confident feeling that we were going to make it, even though I'm not going to lie and say I didn't have my doubts at some points throughout the last 10 years. But a lot of guys in the front office took a lot of criticism in the past years, and they deserve a lot of credit now.”

“Even when we win, we act the same as when we lose. We come in and guys are in there doing the exact same things they were doing yesterday, and we go out and we play a game and we see what happens. That's definitely a positive trait with this team.”

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