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I'm No Different Than Others With Cancer. I Just Happen To Play Professional Baseball. I'm Part Of Those Statistics That Cancer Has Touched As Well.

Blessings Can Come In A Number Of Ways. The Lord Doesn't Give You What You Want, The Lord Gives You What You Need.

Circulating Through The Children's Ward And Seeing Terminally Ill Kids, Heads Shaved, Smiling And Having A Ball Despite The Tubes And Needles Sticking Into Them, I Thought: What Do I Have To Worry About? If God Takes Me, At Least I've Lived For 35 Years.

I Love The Game, It's The Greatest Game On Earth, That's Why I Can't Understand All Of This Talk About Trying To Make The Game Better. People Talk About The High Strike Zone And Changing This And That. Why? To Speed Up The Game? That's The Beauty Of Baseball. There Is No Time Element.

I Don't Listen To What People Say About Me And I Don't Read What They Write About Me. People Can Compare Me To Anyone They Want To, But I'm Not Going To Worry About It.