Young players need to know how to take care of themselves for life after baseball.

Everyone in society should be a role model, not only for their own self-respect, but for respect from others.

I could learn how to press 'Record' on a tape recorder and write for a newspaper or a magazine.

My career is an open book, but my life is not.

I want to be part of Major League Baseball's Hall of Fame, but I don't want to be part of the kind of Hall of Fame that's based on voters' beliefs and assumptions.