Early in my career when I was with Montreal, we had a lot of good outfielders like Otis Nixon, myself, Marquis Grissom and Larry Walker. We all did the platooning thing, although each one of us could have played every day. We got everybody in the lineup, and everybody got to play.

I enjoy my job. And I love the city of Chicago, and this organization - it gave me the start to my whole career.

In my career, I finished in second place six times. I played on teams that were in it to the very end. It's frustrating.

My job is to be the bench coach with the Rays and help this team succeed. If another opportunity arises, I'd welcome the opportunity.

Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship - never.

As a journalist, you don't tend to interview people with a view to becoming their friend. You can't expect that. It's not professional.

There are pretty girls all over the place. But there are still a lot of people standing strong, doing their thing in loving relationships, actually staying true. I wanted to write an honest love song from that point of view.

It is not easy to stand up against your constituents or your friends or colleagues or your community and take a tough stand for something you believe is right. Because you always want to keep working and live to fight another battle and it might cost you your career.