[on the question of whether or not he’s bothered by trade rumors]
“Because I can’t be traded,” he said before leaving for Dunedin, Fla., to play the Blue Jays in a Grapefruit League game at Florida Auto Exchange Stadium. “It doesn’t matter. I don’t care which way it is tried to be twisted or said, or if it is exactly how it was said, or even if it was said — I can’t be traded. It doesn’t matter. If I was tradable, it may have weight because that means I could be moving soon. But I am not tradable, and so it doesn’t matter.”
[on the question of whether or not someone is slandering him]
“It might be a little late for that,” Rollins said. “That’s probably happened years ago. You’re persecuted long before the day you’re sentenced. You’re already found guilty or innocent by the people, so it’s a little late for that.
“Everybody wants to be loved or liked. But good or bad, right or wrong, people are going to love you, and some are going to hate you regardless. You can’t change their opinions to swing either way.”
-Jimmy Rollins to MLB.com’s Todd Zolecki
