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I'm not here to be mediocre.
I definitely enjoy my barbecue.
Winning is definitely contagious.
My track record speaks for itself.
K.C. and the Bay Area are opposites.
You always expect to hit for more power.
You can't really explain why things happen.
I have been an everyday player my whole career.
I wasn't going to be drafted to steal bases at 18.
Kansas City is just a great place. I love the fans.
Even the smallest gesture can make a huge difference.
I want to be a guy the Royals build their team around.
When the game starts, you don't really look at uniforms.
You get a new year, you get a new start, you get a new opportunity.
If I could be half of what Mike Sweeney was, I'll be happy with it.
You're only as good as what you've been. You can't rely on the past.
I'll always be forever tied to the Royals organization and the community there.
I want the pitcher to know he can't take a pitch off, or I'm going to damage him.
It's just my job to prove I belong in there. I've been in the league a long time.
I'm just trying to go out there and play the game the right way and lead by example.
That - 2012 - was definitely my best year, and sometimes it's hard to replicate that.
I offer a proven track record in the big leagues that can hit left-handers or right-handers.
Once you have come-from-behind wins, you have confidence as a team that you're going to do it.
The best compliment you can give a hitter is he's a tough out; that initiates fear in a pitcher.
That's the thing about pinch-hitting - you usually have a chance to make a difference in the game.
You have to work hard each day and try to figure out what's going on and try to get better each day.
You see certain guys enough, and you recognize pitches and stuff. Some guys you see better than others.
I expect to always do well. It's the kind of competitiveness in me. I'm not here to try to just be mediocre.
My nickname is 100 percent fan-based. It's not like one day I said, 'Hey, I want to be named Country Breakfast.'
The key to hitting a lot of home runs as a player at Kauffman Stadium is that you'd better run into some on the road.
Being a major-league baseball player is tough, so whenever you say 'face of the franchise,' I'm not trying to be that.
I'm going to consistently hit anywhere between .290 and .310. Anything above that, I'm catching breaks and finding holes.
I hit balls hard on the ground, and sometimes they are double plays. Other times, you hit it hard, and it's right through a hole.
When you pinch-hit, you know you're getting their best guys, and usually it's a reliever and a guy that's got a really good slider or a really good fastball.
If he wasn't so vital in my younger days, I would have never kept up with baseball. At some point, your dad has to motivate you until you actually realize what you're doing.
The questions don't happen when you hit 30 homers, right? If you hit 30 home runs, you hit 40 doubles, I don't think anybody questions your conditioning or your offseason program.
There's always times when, the organization, we're losing 90 games at a time, and it always feels like we're developing players. But you just continue to grind and continue to do your job.
We were driving by the local athletic association in Orange Park, Florida, and there was this sign for T-ball signups. I was maybe 6 or 7, and my dad looked at me and said, 'Hey, do you wanna give this a try?'
When I turned 12 or 13 years old, even as a dad, you can't make a kid play anymore, but up until that point, he pushed me to keep playing, and when I turned 13, I didn't want to do anything else. He was just there with me at the cage every day because I wanted him to go with me and throw to me and work on what I needed to work on.