I got an offer in 1992 to buy a major-league team. I turned down the offer because I don't want my love of the game to involve business.

If you want to know how important Portland is to me, there's no Saturday night gigs here. They weren't available. So our whole thing coming into Portland, which is going to be different from anybody else, any other city, is every night is Saturday night.

I hear them saying, "You'll never change things, and no matter what you do it's still the same thing." But it's not the world that I am changing. I do this so this world will know that it will not change me.

Our future is not unpredictable, our future is simply the result of choices we have made.

Listen not to the critics who put their own dreams on the shelf.

It would have been fun to have played Tim Robbins' role in Bull Durham.

Mistakes don't scare me or bother me. If I feel like I made the same mistake twice, then I feel like I've really screwed up. But if I make one mistake and learn from it, hey, to me in the game of life it's just as important to know what doesn't work as what does. So I think mistakes are a good thing.