He has no place in the New York Fire Department. I lost too many friends that day to listen to that rubbish.

He's in New York riding on a fire truck up there now. I've already sold two more to go to Ohio. He is one traveling dog.

(The New York City Fire Department is) going to have a lot of explaining to do. These issues have not gone away, and they've never been addressed.

We've got a lot of options now. The weather's better in Western New York now, so we may train there. We'll take 10 days off and then decide where we're going from there.

[And Jack Curry of the New York Times said:] The trendy fall color in baseball is white, not red, ... And the painful year looming over the proud organization is 1917, not 1918. But, while the magical squad is the Chicago White Sox instead of the Boston Red Sox, and the drought without a championship is 88 years, not 86, the mission has not changed: win a World Series title. Finally.

What we decided to do was to take the ship into New York a day early and miss two ports to get an extra day in of sanitation and disinfecting the ship with no passengers on board. We wanted passengers off the ship so we could really make sure the cycle was broken.