At the minor-league and major-league level, you know how important your coaching staff is, but in a big market it becomes absolutely huge.

You make decisions and you're not going to please everybody all the time.

I watch every day when we hit and take ground balls and the way we go about our business. If I saw any lackadaisical approach, that would concern me.

It's the age-old thing - it's such a cliche - but why worry about things you have no control over?

You look around baseball and when things go south, that type of fan apathy happens.

We've got to give a quality effort every day and play better.

We're going to play better, and we're going to play harder.

I think the one thing about me is I'm a fairly demanding guy, and I give a great deal of myself, and I expect that in return.

I always get a kick out of who is going to be the larger cheering section.

How can you wonder what's going to happen when you don't know who's going to be the new guy in town?

Everyone knows the game is about the players.

Your Mercy is my social status.

Business is as old as life. There is no living being that does not have a business.

Intuition enlightens and so links up with pure thought. They together become an intelligence which is not simply of the brain, which does not calculate, but feels and thinks.

I've got all the money I'll ever need, if I die by four o'clock.

I'll write maybe one long paragraph describing the events, then a page or two breaking the events into chapters, and then reams of pages delving into my characters. After that, I'm ready to begin

Praise never gives us much pleasure unless it concur with our own opinion, and extol us for those qualities in which we chiefly excel.

People are so... seem so chaotic internally, but being filtered through some form, like making a record, sort of filters it down into something that can be understood.

Tempo is the glue that sticks all elements of the golf swing together.

I don't do Twitter, Facebook; none of that. My email I do from my Blackberry or my iPhone.

Fools are the only folk on the earth who can absolutely count on getting what they deserve.