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.

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.

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

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.

What do you have that you did not receive? And if you did receive it, why do you boast as if you had not received it?

Any woman who is sure of her own wits, is a match, at any time, for a man who is not sure of his own temper.

Grief melts away Like snow in May, As if there were no such cold thing.

American youth is looking for a reason to die.

I like working with people I know. It saves a lot of awkward conversations and getting-to-know-you kinda moments. You trust the people if you know them.

Ignorance and confidence are constant companions

No matter how explicit the pledge, people will turn and twist the text to suit their own purpose

Love was above everything else, and there was no hatred in love, only the occasional mistake.

I hardly ever missed school, and I always got my work in on time. I was a good student and always got top grades.

Every religion has a prophet who is pointing people to God. Jesus is the only one who says, 'I am God, and I am coming to find you.'