I also need to get some deodorant. Which rookie wants to run out and get me some?

I walked out of the hospital after the operation and got in the car, and I gave the crutches back after two days. This [recent surgery] was a minor thing.

It’s just a knot. They rub it out, it comes back.

That’s the only bag I’ve stolen all year.

The main thing for me is that I’m just trying to get my hits. The home runs will come, and sometimes they come in bunches. I just look for the hits and if (home runs)...

Excuse me, sorry to break up your press conference. This is how we do it in Cincinnati, we don?t have like 35 (reporters) here.

Over the course of the season, you’ll get on a streak where you get a couple, but the main thing for me is to try to get my hits.

Those guys are legends. You can’t say enough for those guys and what they’ve done for baseball. Both of those guys are arguably in the top 10 players in the history of the game.

It was baseball hell in Colorado. For some strange reason, we weren’t getting it done. Eventually, it’s got to change. The big thing is we’ve got to stay positive.

It’s tough. I hate to not be playing, more than anything.

When I was 16, I was working at Queen City Speedway. I made $84 and change one week, then my mama told me to quit to concentrate on baseball.

I’m not going to Chicago. I’m in Pittsburgh.

To be around the guys who said yes to this was a treat in itself. I got a chance to know different personalities, and I think it was pretty awesome that we were able to...

He’s grown up a lot. His maturity level is night and day. When you get a chance to play every day, you have no choice but to go out and try to do a job.

I still have the same urge. But I try to understand a little more now. I still have the same desire to be out there. With the medical staff knowing me, it’s still an ongoing...

Just being able to go out there day in and day out where a lot of people counted me out says a lot for the work I put into it, and for the medical staff...

Certain things work good for the player and good for the team. It’s a mutual decision on what we needed at the time – they needed a spot for LaRue and things like that. So...

Now that the second round is here, I think the intensity is going to pick up.

He’s one of those guys, you’re just glad you had a chance to know him. He took care of me.

I’m just glad I’ll be on the field because this is one of the greatest pitchers who ever toed it up.

I was just trying to get a pitch I could hit. It hit a little off the end of the bat and just got out.

If I can’t do it myself, then I’m not going to do it. When I’m retired, I want them to at least be able to say, ‘There’s no question in our minds that he did...