People earn their respect. Tony has earned my respect. He has earned every ounce of the respect he has on and off the race track.

If we can't hold ourselves up as an example of how to treat people with dignity and respect, we can't ask that other nations do that to our soldiers.

When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet in his private heart no man much respects himself

That's why he earns so much respect around the traps, because he can handle himself not just in a very professional way, but he's very much his own man and he does things the right way.

As a coach, you look at your team a little more critically than others do. But you do respect the fact that coaches look at you as the No. 1 seed.

This is his job. I respect the fact he wants to come back for the last two or three weeks of the season. He's worked hard to come back. Anything is possible. If he comes to the plate three or four times a game, he's going to have an impact on the game.