“As the late baseball manager Sparky Anderson put it: “Losing hurts twice as bad as winning feels good.”

“Sparky Anderson wasn’t just my favorite manager … he was my mom’s favorite manager.”

“Very few who manage a big league club are successful, fewer still are the ones who experience success over an extended period of time, but to achieve a level of success so extraordinary that it is given a category all it’s own—“The Big Red Machine”—places Sparky [Anderson] in one of the most exclusive and elite clubs in baseball history.”

“You're never as good as you think you are when you win; and you're never as bad as you feel when you lose.”

“It took exactly one month of regular season play for fans to accept Sparky [Anderson]—posting a 16-6 record out of the gate has that kind of effect.”

“If Anderson was the good cop, and Blake was the bad cop, Jamaal was the complete psycho cop.”