> “He could easily have turned his back on me. He could have easily been bitter, and he wasn’t at all. He was a friend.”
Will Middlebrooks on Kevin Youkilis
(via [Big League Stew](http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/mlb-big-league-stew/juice-ben-sheets-wins-first-start-almost-two-115329172–mlb.html))
See, also, [Youk’s note to Red Sox Nation](http://www.fenwaywest.com/2012-articles/july/youks-love-note-to-red-sox-nation.html).