Hours before the game, Anderson had said all the right things about the team's decision to trade Coleman.

"I think sometimes giving up power is a form of power," he said about his decision to leave the Senate.

"I was hesitant," she said about her decision to stay closer to home.

"Baseball was always what I wanted to play professionally," Dunn said about his decision in 1999.

"I wanted to try and take the crowd out of it," Jimmy Johnson said afterward about his decision.

Officially, this is what Collins' as yet publicly unidentified mother said about her son's decision:

"But you don't know reality until someone makes a fiction of it," he said about his decision to agree to the film.

"I was tired of sitting around and waiting at home," Stevens said about his decision to join the Devils.

"That's a tough call," he said about the team's decision to dock him.

Mr. Clinton also said nothing about his decision.