Because it worked, it was very meaningful. Because I'm 55 and maybe, the way things are changing, I probably won't have an opportunity like that here. I like that. I hate to say it, but I like that.

I remember in the minors, once there was a sandstorm and the game got sanded out, ... But never fog.

If the people making all the big decisions in baseball don't know the difference between all-star exhibition games and a competition between true champions, they shouldn't be in the decision-making process to begin with.

I haven't been offered a contract to manage anywhere next year, so any talk on where I might manage would be premature.

It stuck with me for quite a while,

Rule No. 1 is you don't make the third out at third base with Mike Piazza coming up.

I wanted to get a little spark from the young guys and they gave it to us.

I've lived that lifetime of doing it and regretting it. But not at all now. It was, what? Thirty years ago?

Every time we hit the ball it seemed to be right at someone and it seemed like every time they hit the ball it fell in a hole.

When you are in a losing streak, it showed a lot of guts to come back after that two-run homer.