When I had the opportunity to talk to people from those organizations, we were in the Asian Series [which the Marines also won]. When decision time was coming for those teams, without leaving them hanging,...

Understanding the use of an adjective or an adverb and figuring out verb tenses won’t help you play baseball in the States. It’s all about learning pitchers and teammates.

Rule No. 1 is you don’t make the third out at third base with Mike Piazza coming up.

Every time we hit the ball it seemed to be right at someone and it seemed like every time they hit the ball it fell in a hole.

It stuck with me for quite a while,

I wanted to get a little spark from the young guys and they gave it to us.

Unique, … That wasn’t that terrible of a team, I guess.

Koga put him in the No. 1 spot last year, and he got hot after that. I thought I’d follow suit.

I haven’t been offered a contract to manage anywhere next year, so any talk on where I might manage would be premature.

When you are in a losing streak, it showed a lot of guts to come back after that two-run homer.

If the people making all the big decisions in baseball don’t know the difference between all-star exhibition games and a competition between true champions, they shouldn’t be in the decision-making process to begin with.

Our edge [last season]: We didn’t have the best players, so we had to have the best team. And now that edge has been tarnished…by the perception that all of a sudden we have the...

I’ve lived that lifetime of doing it and regretting it. But not at all now. It was, what? Thirty years ago?

We started in spring training with a dream to be here for the last game. We wanted to win the last game and we did.

Because it worked, it was very meaningful. Because I’m 55 and maybe, the way things are changing, I probably won’t have an opportunity like that here. I like that. I hate to say it, but...

I remember in the minors, once there was a sandstorm and the game got sanded out. But never fog.

I was in a room with my general manager and afterward someone reported not what I said, but what someone who wasn’t in the room said.