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.

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.

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.

And like anyone who is in valiant pursuit of dreams, the ups and downs come and go, but the dream lives in the heart forever.

Life is sweet or bitter depending on where your attention is, at that moment.

The Holy Spirit never draws attention to Himself. He always points to and reveals Jesus.

To serve the world, serve yourself first by becoming happy and the best person that you can be.

Don't be an escort to people on their way to success, for it is equally as if you're a sign post, leading the way, and rusting at the end.

I think making a pretense of civility toward Eric Alterman is like making a pretense of civility to a scorpion.

He is great enough that is his own master.

Our whole civilization rests on the fact that men have always succeeded in beating off the attack of the re-distributors.

Success is not a harbor but a voyage with its own perils to the spirit ... The lesson that most of us on this voyage never learn, but can never quite forget, is that to win is sometimes to lose.

Success needs to be measured according to the ambitions and the resources of each designer. And many aren't interested in being a megabrand.