I want you kids to know how much we appreciate you. Have fun and behave.

It was fun. It really was, ... People say to me, 'Why don't you give it up?' I don't want to miss out on this stuff, because I'm having a good team. I've never had a bad season when I didn't have a good time.

I'm disappointed for the kids.

It's hard for me to explain. I don't have an ego. I'm going to work to give these kids a chance to win. If we win, it's theirs. You guys are making this too complicated, believe me.

Some years you get bad luck. Some years you make some mistakes. Some years kids show up and they're not as good as we think they're gonna be.

We are in the business of trying to help kids grow up, ... E.Z. has never been a bad kid. He has never done anything malicious to hurt somebody or anything like that. You kept hoping that he would get himself straightened out with the couple little problems he had and I was glad that everything worked out and he could get back in it and do it because he is going to be a fine person.