The first thing to know about playing baseball in Michigan is, Michigan's really cold.

I'm a New Yorker now, and believe me, there's no comparison between the Big Apple and Kalamazoo, no similarity at all. New York City's hectic, always in fast-forward, and Kalamazoo's more laid-back, smaller, slower.

The guy's (Shane Spencer) ridiculous. No one hits home runs like that. I'm telling you, man, it's ridiculous.

The last thing you want to do is finish playing or doing anything and wish you would have worked harder.

In order to lead people, you have to get to know them.

Sneak out when things go good. It bothers me when people have good games and stand in front of their locker waiting for the media, then they have bad games and sneak out the back.

It's never over. You don't want to be in the position to be down four runs in the ninth inning, but it's not over until the last out.