I met Tiger Woods, and I looked in his eyes - and I saw Derek Jeter. They don't have to tell people they're good. They just prove it by the way they love the competition.

You get to the big leagues, and you think, 'Can I do this stuff?' Then you take the first pitch down the middle for Strike 1, and you think, 'I could have hit that.'

Kids are much more intuitive these days. Not that I'm crazy about what's on TV, but they know so much these days.

When you sign on to do a job, you hope you'll be able to get it done. But that's not always in your control.

A winner is somebody who goes out there every day and exhausts himself trying to get something accomplished.

Baseball is a team sport played by individuals for themselves.

Jerry Coleman was the kind of player who made me proud to wear the pinstripes.