Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.

It gets late early out there.

I'd say he's done more than that.

On why he no longer went to Ruggeri's, a St. Louis restaurant: "Nobody goes there anymore because it's too crowded."

If you don't set goals, you'll never reach them. Or like they say in golf, if you aim for nothing, you'll hit it every time. Take any player in the major leagues: I'd say just about everyone of them had a dream - a goal - to be a big-leaguer when they were kids. It wasn't an easy goal, but it was a reachable one, and that's important.

It's never happened in the World Series competition, and it still hasn't.

You have to give 100 percent in the first half of the game. If that isn't enough, in the second half, you have to give what's left.