You can't shelter it. You can't hide it. You have to let people know what you're going through, what you're feeling, what you think you have that's a problem.

Life is too short to worry about anything

The kids competed for a full 32 minutes. We want the kids to compete on every possession.

Not being re-signed in Baltimore was probably the lowest point, mentally, of my career. That city was the only place where I wanted to be at the time, based on everything that had transpired.

You don't protect Mark McGwire. The only way to protect him is hit 70 homers yourself.

Circulating through the children's ward and seeing terminally ill kids, heads shaved, smiling and having a ball despite the tubes and needles sticking into them, I thought: What do I have to worry about? If God takes me, at least I've lived for 35 years.

I tell you, revenge plays a big part in momentum down here.