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

Toughest thing for me as a young manager is that a lot of my players saw me play. They know how bad I was.

I'm ready to do something different.

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.

It's a really neat and special coincidence, but it's nothing but a coincidence. This wasn't set up to give Matt that honor. It's just the way it worked out. It's a neat extra.

Anything that disturbs your comfort factor is good for you.

There are always distractions, if you allow them.