It takes a lot of pressure off our shoulders to get through the first game. It's huge . . . just relief.

Every game that we win, it's going to be less and less pressure. We've just got to sharpen up the sticks.

That (home run) was incredible. I never would have thought in a million years that would happen. I'm used to hitting singles and doubles, and that came out of nowhere. That shut them down.

We had to get fired back up. When we got off to that big lead, we thought we'd beat them. We figured they were done. Then they came back and scored, and that lit a fire underneath us.

Scholarship that is indifferent to human suffering is immoral.

I want to see a flowering of Arab and Jewish cultures in a country without racism or anti-Semitism, without rich or poor or spat-upon: everyone beneath the vine and fig tree living in peace and unafraid. A homeland for each and every one of us between the mountains and the sea. A multilingual, multireligious, many-colored and -peopled land where the orange tree blooms for all. I will not surrender this vision for any lesser compromise.