In corporate culture, in sports culture, in the media, we honor those who win at all costs..
Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness... and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons fo….
Never tell 'em how many lettermen you've got coming back. Tell 'em how many you lost..
It's been years since I've had a real input in the game anyway. For this game, I've just tried to keep all the other stuff away from the players and ….
I'm a huge sports fan but have no interest in minutiae. I don't remember who won Super Bowls five years ago or listen to sports talk radio..
Drinking is not a spectator sport..
I created a flag from the sport's dignity. I oversee the name of my family with affection, steady nerves and blood..
Doctors tell me I have the body of a thirty year old. I know I have the brain of a fifteen year old. If you've got both, you can play baseball..
Never Explain Anything.
There was a time when you were not. There never will be a time when you will not be..
There will always be an underground..
I'm religiously celibate except in LA, NOLA, FLA, because there is certainly no God in any of those places. So unless you live in one of those places….
If I make a set of rules, then a guy goes out and steals an airplane. He comes back and says, 'It wasn't in the rules.'.
Ethnic prejudice has no place in sports, and baseball must recognize that truth if it is to maintain stature as a national game..
Apply yourself wholly to the text; apply the text wholly to yourself..
Things are not going to improve for you in life until YOU improve.
I never felt the same passion for the game in the States and there were a lot of headaches, a lot of obstacles to overcome - it didn't just run itsel….
You can make anything out of anything..
Winners, I am convinced, imagine their dreams first. They want it with all their heart and expect it to come true. There is, I believe, no other way ….
I couldn't be happier..
At the same time, it makes me feel like I have to prove myself to the new guys coming in as well as prove myself to the coaching staff, which is a go….