Spring Training is a fun time for me.

Not that managing in the American League is easy, but this is certainly different. I'll have to have somebody poke me in the rear end when I have a pitcher that's going to hit.

When I was coming home from school as a youngster, and I saw my dad's car in the driveway, I would go to a friend's house. I connected my dad being there with fear.

Baseball is a team sport played by individuals for themselves.

I won't be managing the Mets. I am closing the door on managing the Mets and probably everybody else.

The game itself is an autonomous game, but everybody is a part of it. No contribution is too small.

A winner is somebody who goes out there every day and exhausts himself trying to get something accomplished.