Don't worry about what other people are doing. Worry about what you're doing.

Coffee is the highlight of my day. After coffee everything is downhill.

But that's the thing about basketball: you don't play games on paper.

The NBA and NHL have different agendas: The NBA is much more protective of its players and its brand; the NHL has less to lose, and it's in their best interest to generate buzz any way they can.

Don't worry about what other people are doing. Worry about what you're doing.

When I was in elementary school, we had the kid who threw chairs, the kid who stuttered, and the kid who went to the bathroom on himself ... but we never had the kid who came in one day and started shooting everyone.

I am old enough to remember every Red Sox season since 1975. Baseball is long. Baseball takes forever. It's day in, day out, for six solid months - seven if you're lucky. Winning is always fun.