Anything that disturbs your comfort factor is good for you.

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.

It's like most anything. If you want to be a loser, there's always a way to dwell on the negative. If you want to win, there's always a way to think positively.

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

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.

I'm very distressed that the report was leaked early so that the initial headline said 'dismissed, fired.' That's 180 degrees from the arrangement we have potentially.