Joe Quotes

My wife accuses me - and she's probably right - that I'm sometimes oversensitive.

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.'

Not that managing in the American League is easy, but this is certainly different. I'll have to have somebody poke me in the rear end when I have a pitcher that's going to hit.

I don't think there's any player that's more talented than Alex Rodriguez. He cares very deeply about doing well. Baseball is his life. He puts a lot of pressure on himself.

You know, Mike Milken, the money that he has raised for cancer research has been remarkable.

If a club is winning, you never pay attention to a guy who's 0-for-10. If a club is losing, all of a sudden you'll find that he's the main reason why you're losing, which is absurd for me.

It's not easy to just say you don't want to do something any more.

Every time I pull somebody out of the bullpen, I believe he can do the job. I have to believe it. If he doesn't, hopefully he will do it the next time.

It just feels good to beat the world champs to be the world champs.

You hear the word 'cancer,' it scares you. You think of death.

I'm a very private person, and I don't want to share stuff with anyone.

As a player, to me the Dodgers were the Yankees of the National League because you either loved them or you hated them.

Baseball has always been filled with negative statistics.

St. Louis has always been special to me.

I have great confidence in Rick Caruso's unique qualifications and his ability to lead a successful bid for the Los Angeles Dodgers.

Baseball is a team sport played by individuals for themselves.

Even though I was never a Yankee fan until I put on the uniform, when you think about the deep history of this organization, you always knew what the Yankees represented.

Pitchers make adjustments, and it's up to the hitters to readjust and sort of tweak what they do.

You're always in the storm's eye, so to speak, when you're with the Yankees.

When I was coming home from school as a youngster, and I saw my dad's car in the driveway, I would go to a friend's house. I connected my dad being there with fear.

Chicago is a pretty good town.

I knew what the Dodgers uniform represented as a kid growing up in Brooklyn.

Every place where I played or managed is special to me because of the memories and the friendships that each afforded me.

If I intimidate people, that's not my intention.

I think there's more of opportunity to win games in the National League than the American League because there are more decisions to make.

I won't be managing the Mets. I am closing the door on managing the Mets and probably everybody else.

I just don't like to dwell on stuff.

I don't have a great deal of stress job-wise in my life, and that feels good.

I can understand the fact you don't want the ball slipping out of a pitcher's hand because someone can get hurt.

He [Nomar Garciaparra] could go 0-for-10 in rehab and it wouldn't mean anything.

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.

Boomer is ... Boomer. That pretty much tells you all you need to know

I wish I could paint that picture. As a 20-year-old kid, that was a big thrill.

Winning is a lot of fun. I remember having a meeting a couple years ago and telling the guys: 'You're not enjoying yourselves.' O'Neill said to me afterwards, 'Skip, it's not fun unless you win.'

It's my job that if somebody wants to have a discussion about something, I'm certainly sensitive to that, and I'm willing to do it.

I've seen that picture before. It was a two-seamer that didn't sink until it hit the upper deck somewhere.

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

I hated the Yankees and Dodgers and wound up managing both.

The real miracle here, or stunning thing to me, is that Angela Merkel thought that she could talk on a cellphone and no one would be listening to her, allies or foes.

There will be a libertarian president

If you knew how much information the campaigns had on you, you'd turn off your machines. And I mean that literally.

Losing would be painful, but not as painful as knowing there was something else you could've done.

If you lose hope, you're just not looking far enough ahead.

I will have faith that, though I might not understand why adversity happens, by my conscious choice I can find strength, compassion, and grace through my trials.

Success goes to those who dare to dream. And sometimes you have to take a little "scary action," as well.

The universe is bigger than our egos and can supply more than our demand.

By dismissing what could work, we dismiss our own growth. We dismiss what's possible.

Now get this: I was happy in the moment. As I'm happy, the next moment brings its own rewards. As I'm happy in that moment, it too gives birth to more joy.

Too many people are setting up ways to raise money that are questionable.

Finally, what I really want is to be happy in this moment, where the magic and miracles happen. Stay in the moment and all gifts are added as you breathe and take inspired action.