I just love walking to home plate every night, ... We're all competitors, you know? The player wants to get a hit. The manager wants to win. I want to get it right. To tell you the truth, I just love that competition.

The guy goes into surgery on a Monday, and he can't think it's just another day, because it's a lot more important than that to the guy he's operating on, ... That's the way I feel going to the ballpark. I've never felt, in 35 years, that I could relax and do this job.

It was like pulling teeth, but you get games like that.

I can see the sun okay, and that's 93 million miles away.