If they told me to take my shoes off, I'd coach barefoot,

He that waits for a dead man's shoes may long go barefoot.

I see you go bare-shod. This is most likely extremely sensible. Shoes are no end of trouble for girls. . . . How many have danced to death in slippers of silk and glass and fur and wood? Too many to count—the graveyards, they are so full these days. You are very wise to let your soles become grubby with mud, to let them grow their own slippers of moss and clay and calluses. This is far preferable to shoes which may become wicked at any moment.

I told [third-base coach] Mark Berry to give him the lineup card.

As a coach you try to put yourself in their shoes and see what you're doing and how they may counter it, and see if there's anything you can do to be one step ahead without driving your team nuts.

Coach [C. Vivian Stringer] told us before it even started that it was going to come down to the last seconds.