Obviously every one of them was special to that particular team, all the people that were involved with it.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Everybody had their fans and they were fans of all of them.
Obviously, that off-the-ice battle I went through, plus injuries I came back from, I always felt the fans are really knowledgeable there and respected and appreciated guys that gave whatever they had and guys that fought through things.
We did it with passion; we didn't do it like everyone else. Teams nowadays are still trying to duplicate that, but no one has yet. We shuffled down and we did it. We did it in an unique fashion.
Even on the greatest teams, there's always one role player.
It takes a lot of people to make a winning team. Everybody's contribution is important.
I wanted the players to feel like they were part of a family, to be conscious of that controlled togetherness as they made that slow entrance onto the field. It had a great psychological effect on the opposing team, too. They'd never seen anything like it.
The fact that the games were so close was a tribute to the level of skill in the World Cup.
We did it together. Not one individual carried this team.
Everybody knows everything about all the teams now.
The Oakland A's, I loved all my teammates there. I loved all the coaches. They gave me the opportunity to play in the big leagues. And for that, I thank them. I mean it was a dream come true for me.
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