Never permit the pressure to exceed the pleasure.

I like to have fun. I have never done anything well in my entire life that I didn't enjoy.

Never permit the pressure to exceed the pleasure.

Our prep's not going to be any different. It will be optional batting practice like there was today. I don't want any more work. I don't want extra study.

When you start worrying about who you're going to play, it could bite you. Because it really shouldn't matter.

I want the players to play that way, so I'd better manage that way. The philosophy has been thrown out there. We've been talking about it. We've been working on it, so let's see how it works. Let's see if theory and reality can come together.

You have to anticipate a call's not going to go your way. It happens to everybody. It happens to both sides every night, so you can't necessarily go there mentally. You've just got to keep moving through the moment.