Obviously I wasn't playing well at the time. But as a player, you lie to yourself. You say, "There's nothing wrong. I'm just not on time [at the plat….

I saw [ that I and my father, Cecil end our careers with 319 home runs] after I retired. It was just weird. With all the games we played, neither one….

I miss playing baseball. Just being able to swing the bat, or run, or dive for a ball, or slide into second. If I could even do that in a softball le….

You've got to have some fun before games or you make the season too long. We don't start work until seven o'clock. If you're game-ready at three, it'….

I'm not really in a hurry to ever wear a neck brace. That's why I'm kind of positive about it, because I'm healthy..

Once I started getting multiple days off in a row, it was a long year for me. That had never happened, and everybody knew I didn't like it..

I'd like to help out in any way I can, especially with the younger guys in the minor leagues. But as far as setting something up, we haven't really t….

I play to lift a city, and raise a banner..

Honestly, right now, I don't want to be around baseball. Not that I don't like it. But I'm having fun right here, hanging around my family and watchi….

I'm just living a normal life - a regular life, as people would call it. I'm enjoying it..

It's nice to finally be able to wake up and tie my shoes without feeling like I'm about to tip over, or walk a straight line without feeling dizzy, o….

A friend of mine asked me a question at the end of 2015. We were going over my finances and setting things up for the future when she said, "What do ….

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..

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

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

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 ….

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 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….