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People Say I Don't Have Great Tools. They Say That I Can't Throw Like Ellis Valentine Or Run Like Tim Raines Or Hit With Power Like Mike Schmidt. Who Can? I Make Up For It In Other Ways, By Putting Out A Little Bit More. That's My Theory, To Go Through Life Hustling. In The Big Leagues, Hustle Usually Means Being In The Right Place At The Right Time. It Means Backing Up A Base. It Means Backing Up Your Teammate. It Means Taking That Headfirst Slide. It Means Doing Everything You Can Do To Win A Baseball Game.

I Haven't Missed A Game In Two-and-a-half Years. I Go To The Park As Sick As A Dog And, When I See My Uniform Hanging There, I Get Well Right Now. Then I See Some Of You Guys (media) And I Get Sick Again.

I Don't Smoke. Smoking Will Hurt You When You Try To Run Out A Triple.

Sliding Headfirst Is The Safest Way To Get To The Next Base, I Think, And The Fastest. You Don't Lose Your Momentum, And There's One More Important Reason I Slide Headfirst, It Gets My Picture In The Paper.

The Thing I Would Like Most To Leave Behind Is To Be Remembered For Trying Hard.