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" Even if we're in fifth place in September, I get butterflies before a game. I'm nervous. "

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" I don't expect any red carpet to the big leagues. If the opportunity comes, then it comes. But I don't think I'm owed anything. "

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" Typically, a position change is more for instructional league and winter time. It's just a more relaxed situation. A player can make some mistakes and learn from them. That's the proper way to go about a position change, for me. "

" One of the first benchmarks in a season are far as at-bats is 100. "

" I didn't play the game right because I saw a reward at the end of the tunnel. "

" I played it right because that's what you're supposed to do - play it right and with respect. "

" Time and time again, I see former teammates, and we talk about it. It feels like we are all on the same page: We enjoyed the regular season, but we were disappointed in not making the World Series. "

" If you played the game the right way, played the game for the team, good things would happen. "

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" There were a lot of players who worked just as hard as I did, and if you didn't, you didn't stay in the big leagues. "

" My wife Margaret is the best thing that's ever happened to me. "

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" I'd rather play a double-header than speak at a banquet, and if I went to Wrigley Field knowing I had to be somewhere two hours after the game, it would bother me all day. "

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