Bobby Cox had the biggest influence in my career and probably the second- or third-biggest influence in my life.

It's just the environment that we're in right now. There's a lot of people who still don't want to believe that the program we have in place is a good program, and that it's going to work. They're just trying to find a way to shoot holes in it.

I had all my own teeth and I wanted to keep it that way.

I don't know who you are. I don't know what you want. If you are looking for ransom, I can tell you I don't have money. But what I do have are a very particular set of skills, skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you.

There's nothing better than a team that comes out of nowhere and finds themselves in the World Series.