All in all we thought it was a great experience and helped us succeed in life.

I thought we could take something from last week's game. That gave us some experience in that situation. But I don't think we really wanted to go back into penalty kicks this soon.

It (the election) is a US-designed process and he was helping this US process to succeed.

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this

What a huge inaccessible lumber-room of thought and experience we amounted to, I thought; how much we are, how little we transmit.

[Two of the people thought to be at or near the top of the Pirates' wish list to succeed Lloyd McClendon had much different initial reactions to their names being mentioned for the position. Ken Macha headed off any discussion when approached by Bay Area reporters. Art Howe was a bit more expansive.] With the right ingredients, good things should happen there, ... Hopefully, I'm part of the ingredients.