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I'm a huge advocate of pitching. You have to have good pitching as the solid core, the foundation. It keeps you in every game.

At the minor-league and major-league level, you know how important your coaching staff is, but in a big market it becomes absolutely huge.

Pitchers really don't deal with the managers a whole lot. When we come in the clubhouse, we see him, we say, 'Hey.' That's really it.

I don't want to be a Major League coach.

But the problem with coaching is that it is a full-time job. By that I mean for at least 40 weeks in a year you have to be with the player, either travelling or training. Right now I don't want to do that.

Baseball is a simple game. If you have good players and if you keep them in the right frame of mind then the manager is a success.

When I finish playing, I think I'd like to coach college baseball.

There are three types of pitchers you have to deal with. Some, you just have to tell what town they're in, remind them where they are. Some, you remind them about mechanics, and some, you have to bust their tail. You have to make them your friend and have them trust you.

There's more than one way to do things. There's always different points of views and styles of pitching.

Pitching is always a weird, difficult thing.