You win pennants in the off season when you build your teams with trades and free agents.

Nobody likes to hear it, because it's dull, but the reason you win or lose is darn near always the same - pitching.

Don't play for one run unless you know that run will win a ballgame.

Pitching keeps you in the games. Home runs win the game.

We can't squander any more opportunities. When teams get down to the end (of the season), and you are a bubble team, they gear it up a notch.

I became an optimist when I discovered that I wasn't going to win any more games by being anything else.