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When it's deep into the season and you're not playing well, it's frustrating. This is when it's time to revisit some basics.

There are a lot of young players here right now, and these guys are going to eventually learn as they go. Next year we can't use that as an excuse that we had so many young players on the team.

Some players are more physical than others, some play with more finesse. Some are just really great all-around players. So you have to change your game.

One of the things that I've always not liked is the modern players have always concentrated on dancing in the end zone and BSing when serious things were going on in this country that needed to be changed. So my opinion is that when these young people stand up and risk their careers, that's a good sign for everything and all of us.

It takes the pressure off of your better players to know they don't always have to be on top of their game for the team to do well.

You hear all the time about European players playing the game. These players that come over at 17, 18 and 19, they just don't all of a sudden become skilled. From the time they were little fellas, they learned the fundamentals of the game. Let them create.

Training's completely different now. It used to be a lot of running and work without the ball. Now it's all with the ball, which any player loves.

The one thing about players today is that they're very sensitive, and very fragile. They didn't grow up with tough coaches.

There were times when I'd bench players for their lack of effort. We worked very hard on fundamentals, which was the Dodger way. We needed to be more aggressive.