You can't win the Kentucky Derby unless you're on a thoroughbred.

If Jack Nicklaus can win the Masters at 46, I can win the Kentucky Derby at 54.

Unless you have bad times, you can't appreciate the good times.

I could sense all week that they were ready. They were like a Kentucky thoroughbred. They knew what was there.

To win the division, I was very proud of that, ... But on the other side of the coin, what enabled us to win the division just ran us dry at the end. We had to play every guy, every day, and we needed to win every single game.

Well, we want to win our division, no question, ... [But] the way we've been playing all year, it's nice to have [the wild card]. Right now, we know what we want to do, we want to win the division, we're shooting at Boston, but we also know how tough it's been to get where we are right now, and whatever perk we get from this thing, we're gonna certainly have earned it.