I'm open to play for anybody that would give me respect, treat me the right way, and actually going to make me feel comfortable.
I get a lot of kids distracted. Sometimes they got to go cover left field, but they're over here talking to me, getting an autograph.
Actually the adrenaline of the game will probably help me out a little bit to regain command and concentration about the things that I have to do.
I wasn't playing mind games with anybody, I just said what I said. I am responsible for it, but I wish everybody would fall asleep for that one and let me go out there and do my thing.
I believe that if you're healthy, you're capable of doing everything. There's no one else who can give you health but God, and by being healthy I believe that God is listening to me.
I just try to do what I have to do and let the people out there do what they have to do, which is have fun, scream, yell and jump around. I try to do what I have to do, which is play baseball, and I can only play in that piece of area there, so that's what I try to do.
My brother never got an opportunity to throw a pitch, and I didn't want the same thing to happen to another young kid.
I do miss competing, being out there - the atmosphere, I do miss it.
I keep active because I have not announced my retirement, because that is something that takes time and you have to plan it. Plus, it is something that the Dominican people expected.
You have to execute. You have to sacrifice your body.