The first year it happened, we thought maybe it was a blip.

This will likely continue and that's why we've been having these discussions with our rural facilities.

Offensively I thought Tricia, Randi and Stacy had a really good day. We did some nice things defensively, but our three, four and five hitters really struggled putting the bat on the ball. Plus our bench didn't really help us today and that's something that we've been able to count on usually.

From where I was sitting, I thought the official blew the call. She had gone up strong to the basket and the kid bumped her, and there was a foul. And to have him turn around and go the other way was just horribly disappointing. I blame myself. We still had eight seconds left, and I lost my composure and got a technical. That's my fault. I just thought it was that poor of a call.

The owners at the time thought, well, we’re going to have to give all this money back, ... And he comes driving up, late, to do the show. He’d been to a Braves game.

When I won the world championship, in 1972, the United States had an image of, you know, a football country, a baseball country, but nobody thought of it as an intellectual country.