I do not think that winning is the most important thing. I think winning is the only thing.

I'm for the dreamers. The only really important things in history have been started by the dreamers. They never know what can't be done.

Three strikes, you're out. I don't care if you hire Edward Bennett Williams to defend you; three strikes, you're still out. Baseball is an island of stability in an unstable world.

Suffering is overrated. It doesn't teach you anything.

I don't want the natural athlete -- I want a guy who'll go after the hard ones.

Tradition is the albatross around the neck of progress.

I have discovered in 20 years of moving around a ballpark, that the knowledge of the game is usually in inverse proportion to the price of the seats.