Nothing I Did Contributed To

Not Being Re-signed In Baltimore Was Probably The Lowest Point, Mentally, Of My Career. That City Was The Only Place Where I Wanted To Be At The Time, Based On Everything That Had Transpired.

It Takes A Lot Of Energy To Be Negative. You Have To Work At It. But Smiling Is Painless. I'd Rather Spend My Energy Smiling.

I'm Being Compared To The Impossible. I Never Saw Mays, Aaron Or Clemente Play. What About The People I Face Every Day? Tim Raines Is The Best? Mattingly Is The Best? Why Not Compare Me To My Peers?

People Saw Me As Being Heroic, But I Was No More Heroic Than I Was With Other Injuries I Had, Like The Lacerated Kidney I Suffered During The 1990 World Series. It's Just That People Haven't Known Anyone With A Lacerated Kidney, But Everyone Can Relate To Someone With Cancer.

People Always Ask Me How I Can Hit The Ball So Far, And I Say, 'i Just Swing.' It's The Coaches Who First Told Me I Had Good Bat Speed. I Was Just Swinging, And I Guess It Was Fast. I'm Pretty Fast At Everything.