You can't be stubborn. You can't try to run the ball at all costs.

There's a crucial difference in costs for procuring parts and materials between big operations and small ones.

I'm going to be stubborn and stay on the ball. I was more of a pull hitter (last year). It's not the way I had approached things in the first 10 years, so I don't know why in my 11th and 12th years I started changing. ... Not this spring.

We are here to provide a service, but the more we run the more it costs taxpayers.

We didn't run and a lot of that had to do with Ivory. We didn't push the ball like we normally do, get it out and go. Some of that was not getting the rebounds.

(Rivera) was going to get the ball even if we were down a run, ... Having the lead was just a bonus.