“There is a lot to managing, and with almost four years under my belt, ...” — Ryne Sandberg Quote

There is a lot to managing, and with almost four years under my belt, I believe I'm ready.

Even if we're in fifth place in September, I get butterflies before a game. I'm nervous.

There's not too many guys that spend their whole career with one team and I think it's very fortunate and a blessing for me.

When we went home every winter, they warned us not to lift heavy weights because they didn't want us to lose flexibility. They wanted us to be baseball players, not only home run hitters.

I was a hard worker.

Whether it's fight off my front foot, fight off my back foot, pick shots off, roll shots off, potshot, put combinations together, I feel like I'm a pretty well-rounded fighter. Whatever the situation calls for, I feel like I have the tools on my belt to bring it out.

I need my second belt.

The ultimate goal for me is to be the world champion - it's all I've wanted to do since I was a kid - so when the money that comes with it is life-changing, yes, that's nice, but get The Ring magazine belt, being considered the world champion, is something money can't buy.

It's totally produced now. It's almost like a conveyor belt of what metal's supposed to be like these days. It's not music to me.