Playing baseball is fun. If I could play, I'd never retire. But managing is work. It's constant decisions of whose feelings you want to hurt all the time.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
If you're playing baseball and thinking about managing, you're crazy. You'd be better off thinking about being an owner.
I enjoy baseball more than anything and would like to be involved with it forever, but the reality is your survival is determined by how well you compete, not by your fondness for the game.
If I had any interest in coming back to baseball, it would be as a general manager and not as a manager.
I love what I do. I'm appreciative and I'm still competitive. I still love baseball, but it doesn't consume me. If I can't do it anymore, then I go home and do something else. It's not the end of the world. It's just the end of your career.
Baseball is a lot like life. It's a day-to-day existence, full of ups and downs. You make the most of your opportunities in baseball as you do in life.
It's just so much fun to relax and just play baseball for a living. It's a great time in my life. I'm never going to forget it, and it's very humbling.
Baseball is my job, and I love it, but it can't be the only thing I've got going on.
Baseball is a simple game. If you have good players and if you keep them in the right frame of mind then the manager is a success.
Baseball is not what I love. It's my job.
You can't get real happy or real depressed when you play baseball. Baseball is a great sport in that it offers a player a lot of opportunities for atonement.