We have to take what we learned and accomplished at the end of the season and kind of pick up where we left off.

This one's always a fight to the end. I remember that game two years ago was an emotional roller coaster ... it was freezing cold, but the game sort of took our minds off it and we were able to make it count at the end.

I'm optimistic. We have a much better attitude on the team this year.

(Howard) had been throwing me curve balls because I hung with him earlier in the game. He had to come back with a fastball. I waited for the pitch and drove it.

The big lesson of Reagan is: To think that he was some sort of simple figurehead and didn't do the thinking and simply read a script in front of him woefully underestimates him. Ronald Reagan was an extremely intelligent person with a real V8 engine under his hood.

It is nice to know that the computer understands the problem. But I would like to understand it too.