When I was interviewed after I got hired to replace Walter Alston, a future Hall of Famer, I was asked: “Don’t you feel pressure on you?” I said: “Want to know something, I’m worried about the guy who’s going to have to replace me.”

Sports has kept me on the straight and narrow path.

When we lose, I eat. When we win, I eat. I also eat when we're rained out.

There are three types of baseball players: Those who make it happen, those who watch it happen and those who wonder what happens.

The only way I'd worry about the weather is if it snows on our side of the field and not theirs.

I walk into the clubhouse today and it's like walking into the Mayo Clinic. We have four doctors, three therapists and five trainers. Back when I broke in, we had one trainer who carried a bottle of rubbing alcohol, and by the 7th inning he'd already drunk it.

I am so happy and proud to learn of Hideo Nomo's election to the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame. He was quite a pitcher and competitor, but he is also a very special and caring person.