We live surrounded by critics, so let them talk, let them criticize me as much as they want. Ultimately, that makes me a better player.
You've got keep your head up, keep fighting, and do the best you can.
I don't focus on the scale. I focus on doing my job. The team staff and the program I've been working on, they've been touching on that, but I don't focus on the scale.
I just do my work, try to do everything I can. I don't weigh in all offseason. I just try to get better, be in better position, be an athlete.
I'm happy. I learned. I learned from my mistakes. But when you learn, you see all the results; you look more mature, and you put all the pieces together.
You're going to have some ups and downs, so you have to prepare yourself to be ready. Those down moments come.
My career had fallen into an abyss because I was so complacent with things that I had already accomplished. I did not work hard in order to achieve more and to remain at the level of the player that I am and that I can be.
You need to learn. You need to grow up. You need to step up and know the difference between what you can do and what you can't.
It has not been easy to wake up every single day at 6:30 in the morning to then head to the gym and start a full day of work. But you have to have that kind of dedication if you want to achieve the goals you have set for yourself.
The people that I surround myself with now and my family, they are the key to my success.
I just prepare myself to perform well, to support my teammates to play well, to try to get to the final, to the World Series.
I don't try to lose weight. I don't try to do nothing. I just try to put in my work, feel better, the things that I can do in the field to be better are better, so that's what I do.
I'm going to prove to the fans, going to prove to my teammates, that I can be a better defensive player, offensive player, to win games.
It is not about money. It is about how you treat the player.
You learn from the things that happen in your career. You get up and down. You never give up. All the things that happened in my career, thank God it happened early rather than late in my career.
When our backs are on the wall, that's the time when we enjoy having fun, relax out there, do our thing, don't get the pressure on, see the results, day by day, game by game.
I'm not selfish. I am where I am because I have worked very hard and have always done my job.
I don't pay attention to the media. You guys can say whatever you want. At the end of the day, at the end of the season, if we're doing well, you guys are going to be there.
I trust no one - that microphone, that book.
If it's going to go my way, it's going to go my way. I have to keep working hard.
