Some people die twice: once when they retire, and again when they actually pass away. Fear of the first one is a big incentive for me to keep working.

I have to go over my carefully prepared ad-libs.

In a year that has been so improbable, the impossible has happened…

I don't watch teams other than Dodgers on TV and I watch the Dodgers games sparingly. I like to refresh my mind at night, so I like to read. For me, watching baseball at night, it would be like an insurance man reading actuary tables. I like to escape.

There's that old saying: Squeeze the juice out of life before life squeezes the juice out of you. I will try to squeeze the remaining juice out of life.

I would say realistically, and I don't want any headlines, but I would say realistically that next year would be the last year.

Manuel Corpas is long and lean-the opposite of Olmedo Saenz.