The fun begins (tonight). It's going to be a hell of a series.

The easy thing to do would have been to give up. But we don't do anything easy in this clubhouse.

The guy is too good of an athlete to play there. He should be playing left field. He'll have no problems at first base. If I can play there, anybody can.

The kid has electric stuff. Let's see how he does here in the Nation.

Don't let us win tonight. This is a big game. They've got to win because if we win we've got Pedro coming back today and then Schilling will pitch Game 6 and then you can take that fraud stuff and put it to bed. Don't let the Sox win this game.

Sometimes, Manny is taking a nap, and you woke up the baby. There's not a better retaliation, something like that. Manny's one of the best at that.

The good thing is we got the Yankees three times at the end of the season.

I didn't have a grip on that ball. I shouldn't have thrown it.

The good thing is we got this over in spring training. We played them three or four times and got all the hugs out of the way. Now it's time to go out there and beat them.

The fans were phenomenal. It sounded like Sox Nation out there.