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Every player should be accorded the privilege of at least one season with the Chicago Cubs. That's baseball as it should be played - in God's own sunshine. And that's really living.

The great trouble with baseball today is that most of the players are in the game for the money and that's it, not for the love of it, the excitement of it, the thrill of it.

If you watch the history of baseball, teams come back, and sometimes they could have come back, but they give in or give up.

Baseball needs more superstars.

MLB has become overly active, actively involved in the game, the on-the-field game. They're trying to run the game the way they want to and you just have to play along with it, deal with it.

The economics of baseball are the big problem. The big clubs make a lot of money and the little clubs don't.

I just wanted to go play in the big leagues. But possibly playing for the Yankees is very special.

It's bad for baseball to have owners who can benefit another business by losing money in baseball.

After you manage the Yankees for 12 years, it's really tough to envision going somewhere else. But then the Dodgers called.