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" K.C. and the Bay Area are opposites. "

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" My nickname is 100 percent fan-based. It's not like one day I said, 'Hey, I want to be named Country Breakfast.' "

" We were driving by the local athletic association in Orange Park, Florida, and there was this sign for T-ball signups. I was maybe 6 or 7, and my dad looked at me and said, 'Hey, do you wanna give this a try?' "

" Once you have come-from-behind wins, you have confidence as a team that you're going to do it. "

" You always expect to hit for more power. "

" That - 2012 - was definitely my best year, and sometimes it's hard to replicate that. "

" I definitely enjoy my barbecue. "

" I've always had a bigger body, even when I was 18. "

" I expect to always do well. It's the kind of competitiveness in me. I'm not here to try to just be mediocre. "

" If he wasn't so vital in my younger days, I would have never kept up with baseball. At some point, your dad has to motivate you until you actually realize what you're doing. "

" I'm a redneck. "

" When the game starts, you don't really look at uniforms. "

" The questions don't happen when you hit 30 homers, right? If you hit 30 home runs, you hit 40 doubles, I don't think anybody questions your conditioning or your offseason program. "

" It's just my job to prove I belong in there. I've been in the league a long time. "

" Winning is definitely contagious. "

" I wasn't going to be drafted to steal bases at 18. "

" I have been an everyday player my whole career. "

" I've always been happy playing in Kansas City. "

" You're only as good as what you've been. You can't rely on the past. "

" There's always times when, the organization, we're losing 90 games at a time, and it always feels like we're developing players. But you just continue to grind and continue to do your job. "

" When I turned 12 or 13 years old, even as a dad, you can't make a kid play anymore, but up until that point, he pushed me to keep playing, and when I turned 13, I didn't want to do anything else. He was just there with me at the cage every day because I wanted him to go with me and throw to me and work on what I needed to work on. "

" You get a new year, you get a new start, you get a new opportunity. "

" You can't really explain why things happen. "