"You see I have to be in the clinic every Thursday and it's in Phoenix so I have to fly down or drive down. It has to be every Thursday for this damn stuff they're giving me"

"It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes"

"I wish you a tolerable Thursday. That's all any of us can hope for"

"This must be Thursday. I never could get the hang of Thursdays"

"I love California, I practically grew up in Phoenix"

"Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining"

"And God said, 'Let there be light' and there was light, but the Electricity Board said He would have to wait until Thursday to be connected"

"It wasn't like it is now. But for the types of teams we had, the fans were very good here. On some Thursday afternoon games, we'd get 25,000 fans. That was remarkable. This has always been a great Red Sox city"

"People wonder if I'll always be a part of this family and the answer is yes. My family has a lot of good energy going in one direction and because of it, we get a lot of things done. That's why I'll always spend a lot of time at Camp Phoenix"

"My agent and I put out my proposal one Thursday afternoon in August, 1998. Publishers started bidding immediately, and that process progressed for a few days"

"By Thursday morning, we'd gotten over the worst of it"