I get to kind of pretend I'm going to play baseball. I get to work out and do all the stuff that was part of baseball. I just don't get to play..

We took a family trip to Thailand, Vietnam and Cambodia over Christmas and New Year's. Three weeks was a long time, but it was cool, man. We were on ….

Obviously, I think this [162 games a year four times] caused my early retirement, but I couldn't do it any other way. Just for the record, I never as….

I have nothing left to prove. I've already done enough to my neck..

A lot of people probably think I'm not athletic or don't even try to work out or whatever, but I do. Just because you're big doesn't mean you can't b….

If there's a man on second, I'm trying to get him in with a base hit. The doubles and homers will come. Sooner or later they'll go out naturally. I'm….

My main goal now is waking up healthy every day and going on with life..

Miguel and Justin, the two biggest guys on the team, welcomed me right away and once the cool kids in school like you, it's easy to get along..

I stick to safe, controlled movement. If it's not safe, I just won't do it..

Just because you're big doesn't mean you can't be an athlete. And just because you work out doesn't mean you're going to have a 12-pack..

I miss the guys, and I miss playing baseball. Just being able to swing the bat, or run, or dive for a ball, or slide into second..

There are maybe one or two hours a day when I think I can play, but I get over that real quick once I realize the risk and my wife tells me, "Just ta….

It's kind of glorious to say, "Oh man, this guy had his career cut short." I'm not calling myself Sandy Koufax by any means. I'm not in that caliber ….

Coming up through high school, coaches would tell me not to swing so hard. It's the only way I know. It just happens..

I definitely don't want to run any 5K races anytime soon. I can work out pretty hard as far as intensity. But as far as playing basketball or anythin….

I guess you need days off, but I just didn't want them..

You don't need to have a perfect ending to be happy..

It was pretty hard to actually have to say the words with my teammates, my wife and my boys there. I realized it was going to happen before that day ….

When I was playing, my wife and kids would go on the road with me, and we would go to different lunch spots that we saw on "Diners, Drive-Ins and Div….

I thought it might be a cool thing [food show] to do when I retired a few years later. Then retirement came slightly prematurely..

If I could even do that [playing] in a softball league, I would never miss anything about baseball..