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.

Being involved in competition is a privilege and an opportunity. Seek to make the most of that opportunity by pushing yourself to the limit of your abilities. When it is over, you will have earned the respect of your opponents, your coaches, and yourself.

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.

I'm ready to do something different.

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.

Pressure comes when someone calls on you to perform a task for which you are unprepared.