“Glad you're back to normal. The makeup and the dress were a lot more intimidating than the dagger.""Get going, Sparky, before I skewer you.""Sparky?”
“It's going to be okay," I told her, even though I was pretty sure we were all going to be skewered on L'Occhio silver daggers any minute now.”
“A stodgy parent is no fun at all. What a child wants and deserves is a parent who is SPARKY”
“Sparky Anderson wasn’t just my favorite manager … he was my mom’s favorite manager.”
“As the late baseball manager Sparky Anderson put it: “Losing hurts twice as bad as winning feels good.”
“When you grow up and have children of your own, do please remember something important: A stodgy parent is not fun at all! What a child wants - and DESERVES - is a parent who is SPARKY!”