We need our veterans to set an example, like being the first ones there. A veteran is entitled to a bigger paycheck, but not a special set of rules.

You can't run a mule in the Kentucky Derby.

Momentum is your next day's pitcher.

If anybody says they get used to it, you don't.

He represented the Twins , but I think everyone in baseball felt like they were a teammate of Kirby Puckett.

I've managed 25 years, and I can probably count on one hand players that I didn't really care for, and that's probably thousands of players that I've managed. I think that's pretty good. I love the players and I always will.

My eight years in Detroit, obviously, were my most successful years managing. I think that Pittsburgh and Detroit are probably very, very similar. We kinda rekindled the fire of baseball in Pittsburgh. We did the exact same thing in Detroit.