He's a standup man's man, and he's one of those guys you don't want to cross. He gives us direction, and that's all we really lacked.
He lost the passion for the game. You can't really fault a guy for that, because that happens. And he was smart enough to say the money didn't matter to him. It was his own personal happiness.
Unbelievable, ... It was one of those trades like, 'Who knew?' Guys in the National League knew what he could do.
I wasn't out there, and I'm a nuisance. I think everybody knows that. In fact, (Leyland) had to calm us down from walking up on the home runs. You can see how it changed from being nice guys to we do have attitudes. There's a lot of attitudes.
I put up great numbers, better than a lot of players who got called up around the majors. A lot of them were on contending teams, ... Tampa's going nowhere this year, so they could at least call up the guys who are going to be there in the future.