My kids are just waiting for me at home. I'm their father. They're wondering, 'When's Daddy coming home?'

Billy Beane was a guy who had been devalued by the sport as a player and now is working as a GM for a small-market team.There is such a gulf in what these teams have to spend on talent [that] they can never play equally - they can never have a true competition.

Once you hit 40, you start reexamining the math of it all. I'll trade wisdom for youth any day.

I could really try new things. That was satanism, it works really well, I made a pact.

[Fatherhood] is everything.... The hardest job in the world, the most rewarding job in the world.... We put in long days. And to go home and have dinner with your kids, and have to discipline one of them who's out of line, and still have the energy for that is.... I can't explain the fulfillment of that, but it is everything.

With sons and fathers, there's an inexplicable connection and imprint that your father leaves on you.

It may be a brief interruption - just a few seconds - but what if someone sitting near you is trying to make a decent bootleg? Did you ever think of that? Now all those street-corner copies are permanently defiled by your so-called 'emergency.' Don't be so damn selfish.