I can't imagine trying to second guess what George Plimpton would do, ... The magazine has this tremendous tailwind moving it along, but there also has to be room to reconnect to a new time. These new articles will have a distinctive flavor and will address themselves to the world at large. |
I can't retire after this year. I could, but I can't because I'm not going to let this game get the better of me. I am beating this game. I am not going to go out sour. I've had too many great times in this game. I'm not going out sour. I'm going to go out on my terms, not the game's terms. |
I can't tell you the amount of pride you have when you put that uniform on with all of America watching. Tommy Lasorda said it (Tuesday) morning. When the Dodgers win a game, Dodger fans are happy. America is our fans. We have a pretty big fan base, and we don't want to let those guys down. |
I definitely got more out of it than I expected. I got to go behind United Nations' closed doors and see the inner workings of the U.N. I learned that there are so many more opinions on a situation, and that the United Nations is not the United States' opinion, but 191 conflicting opinions. |
I distinctly remember Jay Gibbons hit the grand slam off me at Baltimore. I think I ended up giving up nine runs in that game. It was just a nightmare game for me. That was a good example of the snowball effect. If things go bad in the first inning, I don't want it to snowball it even more. |
I do expect him to be limited in some sort. He's coming off major surgery and he's had some major issues over the last several years. I don't expect any player who's going through that type of thing to come on board and just all of a sudden be able to do everything on a full-activity basis. |
I do think that we've gotten some scrutiny that we don't deserve. All we did was go out and win games. We went out and scheduled people and played people on the road. We were smarter than most of America in our scheduling with the [Ratings Percentage Index], and we had some unfair scrutiny. |
I don't control nothing that happens. All I can do is go play my best and whatever the coaches say, I do. So if they tell me he's starting, then I'm going to congratulate him and help him if I can. To me, it's just playing football and it's part of the business, and that's how I look at it. |
I don't even know why we're having that discussion. I think we're definitely one of the best 64 teams in the country. We play in a league where every night you have to play your best basketball or you will get your hat handed to you. I think we've earned the right to be one of top 64 teams. |
I don't feel any more pressure, but we know teams are going to try and come at us harder because we're No. 1 and they want to prove they can beat the No. 1 team. But I like that. It means they are going to play harder and that's going to make us play harder and it's going to make us better. |
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I don't know what was different, ... But we swung the bats from the outset of the game. Maybe that was the difference. We went out with a more aggressive approach. We seem to go at him that way. In the past, he's made good pitches on us early in the count, he's gotten ahead and put us away. |
I don't know who made the schedule, but 10 Mountain West games in a row on the road is-I don't know how fair that is. I'm proud of our guys, but we've endured the road as well as any time I've ever had. Thirty-eight games, and we've played four at home. Our guys have done a really nice job. |
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I don't like to put players in categories but it is not our top-10 players, it is our bottom 10 that are really performing, like Luke Ablett, (Adam) Schneider, (Amon) Buchanan. These guys have been the story of the year from our point of view and that is where the improvement has come from. |