We hit pretty good. He came back because the throw came up. I didn’t have anywhere to go. We did hit.

We want everyone to be aware of the breadth of research pertaining to the pork industry being done here at Iowa State. Faculty from the colleges of Agriculture, Engineering, Human Sciences and Veterinary Medicine are...

I’ll tell him anything he wants to know about the game or the team or the league, or whatever goes on in association with being a big leaguer. That’s part of the deal when you...

We’re building up fielding like we’re building up our swing. If something goes wrong in a game or something I don’t feel comfortable with, the next day I’ll work on it. It’s a feel thing,...

It means he’s doing his job because he’s on base. You have to be on base to score runs. The more times he scores, the better off the Chicago Cubs are.

The independent directors — and believe me, we did not take this lightly — made a decision to change management and leadership of the company.

The change of management had nothing to do with the Allen report at all. This process was talked about several months ago, before the Allen report was brought to our attention.

I tried to get as low as I could and slide to create an angle. I didn’t get it out of the sun.

Young guys, if they’re smart about it, they will kind of keep their eyes open,

When you have a great closer on the mound in the ninth inning, the game is 99.9% over. So anything you can get against a guy like that is a huge plus.

This won’t be so much an accomplishment for our team as it is an accomplishment for the entire organization. This team hasn’t relied on two or three guys. It’s been everybody. When guys went down,...

I lost the ball in the sun. Nobody feels worse about it than me. I tried to slide to create an angle, and I still didn’t get it out of the sun.

I lost the ball in the sun. That was the thing. It was going to be a bang-bang play, and I was going to get there at the same time as the ball. I tried...

It’s obviously a tough situation, … I would imagine going through the Minor Leagues in an organization where your father is the pitching coach, you probably have a little more stress or a little more...

He’s in good spirits. You feel bad for him. You hate to see anyone get hurt.

You think you’ve got him figured out and he comes up with something new. Never the same pattern twice, never the same pitches twice.

I had a running start.

Last year, it was like a machine. It just kept rolling and rolling and rolling and rolling. This year, it’s like whoever steps in comes up and does the job. It’s a different guy every...

It’s a neat thing to see. It’s good for them. It’s good for us. It’s a good team atmosphere.

[Pierre] understands the role and is one of the best in the league at it. He’s going to try to get on base, no matter what. He’ll bunt, he’ll get his hits, he’s not going...

I hit him pretty good. The ball short-hopped and came up, so he backed up. When he backed up, he was in the middle of the base. I tried to hit the front corner and...