Be anything you want to be, but don't be dull.

Probably the most dramatic change in pitching I've observed in my years in baseball has been the disappearance of the knockdown or brushback pitch. This is why record numbers of home runs are flying out of ballparks, why earned run averages are soaring, and why there are so few twenty game winners in the majors.

I had no trouble communicating, the player's just didn't like what I had to say.

There's absolutely no way you can go barreling into second and dump a guy on a double play, like you should do, when you've been fraternizing with him before a game.

I expect that [trying to do the best] of my players today and of my kids. My wife says I shouldn't expect that of my children, but I don't think that's asking too much.

All in all, I wouldn't call it a bad outing. It was a short outing.

I always tried to do the best. I knew I couldn't always be the best, but I tried to be.