The thing I learned when I was playing was that your best way of winning was to make it difficult for the other team to score in the last three innings.

Just because you're down to your last strike, you're not out yet. You can always do more. You'll always have more at-bats to take. That's true in baseball, in rescuing animals, and in life generally.

In the end, as a manager or coach, you have to keep your heart pure and do your best as a manager or a coach.

To me, there is no more conscientious umpire in the Major Leagues than Jim Joyce. He gives you a hellacious effort every time.

Even when you have three strikes, you're still not out. There is always something else you can do.

You can be stupid once, but idiotic to do it again. I'll settle for being stupid.

We never quit trying. I know that's kind of corny, but the fact is we never quit trying. The dugout was alive even when we were behind. And sometimes it works.