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.

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.

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.

I want to exude strength and intelligence.

Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing. Continue to share your heart with people even if it's been broken.

In war, we always deform ourselves, our essence.

The normal economic system works itself.

We all drive differently and have different styles. For me I need a car I can develop beneath me and feel comfortable in. If the car feels neutral and unbalanced it doesn't work for me.

To have courage, one must first be afraid. The deeper the fear, the more difficult the climb toward courage.

Over the course of a season, you'll get goals that are good disallowed and you'll get disallowed goals that are good.

If the simple positions of ballet are demonstrated straight on, they seem quite dull and lifeless, but when put on a diagonal, they begin to take on all kinds of possibilities.

Out of the current confusion of ideals and confounding of career hopes, a calm recognition may yet emerge that productive labor is the foundation of all prosperity.

Ane bow that is ay bent Worthis ay unsmart and dullis on the string; Sa dois the mynd that is ay diligent In ernistfull thochtis and in studying.