I don't know how we've done it. I could tell pretty early on that everybody on the team was clicking, but I couldn't have imagined a run like this. Everybody just seemed to fit into the team perfectly.

We were pressing and dropping into a zone. We packed in our defense and didn't let them inside and they could not hit their outside shots.

Their size got to us. But we've beaten teams people told us we had no chance to beat before. Even today they never stopped trying.

I really don't use that much make up - I'm pretty natural. I wear even less of it in the summer.

I think he pretty well had run the string out.

I think, first of all, you have to understand I think I have a pretty good relationship with Mr. Selig, ... I do. It just took me a long time to meet him. I met him in Atlanta [at the 1999 World Series when Selig lifted the ban so Rose could appear with the All-Century Team], first time. I believe he is a fair man.