Baseball is about talent, hard work, and strategy. But at the deepest level, it's about love, integrity, and respect.

Building a baseball team is like building a house. You look for the best architects, the best builders - and then you let them do their jobs.

Texting is a lot like an answering machine. If you don't want to talk to somebody, it's like screening your calls. To me, it's a way of communication, but not one that I favor.

My label in Toronto was Stand Pat and I think that was a fair assessment. I tried to be patient, but if a trade came along - big or small - that I thought should be made, I would make it.

I was lucky to go to work every day for 50 years, to a job that I loved.

No matter how much technology changes scouting, no matter how much free agency and big TV contracts change the business of baseball, I hope and pray that the heart of the game will never change.

In reality, though, most of the time we don’t choose the best option—we choose the first reasonable option, a strategy known as satisficing.

Try to avoid getting involved with somebody who's gonna need killing before it's over. It may seem to you that that narrows the field somewhat, but be diligent.

Believe nothing, no matter who said it, even if I said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and common sense

I had always been appalled by the variation of the gospel of prosperity

I think the people I have met have meant a great deal to me, more than any shot I ever hit. I will always remember some golf shots, but others I would like to forget.

There is an accumulative cruelty in a number of men, though none in particular are ill natured.

I don't think [governments] use [religious repression ] as a weapon, they use it as a as a means of - of oppression. To stifle opposition. To mute resistance.

Music is the best consolation for a despaired man

We live in a decaying age. Young people no longer respect their parents. They are rude and impatient. They frequently inhabit taverns and have no self control.

We got into a recession because the global economy went into the recession and we're a big exporting nation.