“The doctors have cleared me. I'll be ready to play by spring training. Everybody will see. I'm pain-free and in better shape than ever now after rehabbing so long.”
“I want to spend time with my fans. This team made a big commitment to sign me here. I have to return that. I have to be here. I have to spend time with my teammates, with the fans, with all you guys. I need to do that. Detroit has a lot of good fans.”
“It's hard to see your teammates win the World Series. You spent your whole career there and left one year early. I didn't know they were going to win the World Series.”
“I'm not that far away. Today I did much better. It was hard to work in the Classic because there was all this pressure on you to hit home runs, and that doesn't happen that way.”
“Anybody can hit in this lineup. We don't strike out that much, which is pretty good. We hit the ball everywhere. We're going to hit for average, but we have guys that can hit a long way.”
“He plays the game the right way. When you play the game the right way, the game comes to you. He's really quiet, but he talks with his bat and glove.”
