Occupation: Baseball Player Birth: July 20, 1974
We [ me and brother] wanted to win at things like basketball games or baseball games, but off the field we never felt like we had to compete with eac….
If you're a pitcher, and you're pitching and you strike me out and you start celebrating on the mound and showing me off, whenever I get a hit off yo….
You have to have a lot of motivation, a lot of heart and be able to work hard. You can never be down on yourself because baseball is a sport that wil….
There's a lot of disrespect in the major leagues. I believe that the disrespect in the major leagues is at a high rate and is really bad for the gam.
My dad and my mom had to sacrifice so much, and had to teach us and show us the way of going about things, how to be humble, all those things. They h….
I liked playing with David Eckstein (former Angels shortstop). I'm not talking about players with top skills, I'm sure there were players with way mo….
We're baseball players. We don't need guys telling us, 'Hey, you need to hurry. Hey, you need to do this. Hey, you need to step up.' We are professio….
When I got to the stadium, one of my biggest things was watching video of hitters..
I'm a pretty easygoing guy. I'm not hard to get along with. I never had anybody that I had trouble with. On the other team, sometimes you don't like ….
I think my mom and dad did a great job with that, because we [with brother] never had any competition in baseball. We always tried to help each other..
I was very nervous, excited, and happy to be given the opportunity to even be in the major leagues..