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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.

I think I understand why baseball players today are a little standoffish, because the world has changed. You don't know who's trying to take advantage of you, what people really want.

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 perception is that baseball's players' union is protecting players to use steroids and other illegal performance-enhancing drugs.

The great thing about baseball is the causality is easy to determine and it always falls on the shoulders of one person. So there is absolute responsibility. That's why baseball is psychologically the cruelest sport and why it really requires psychological resources to play baseball - because you have to learn to live with failure.

There is no room in baseball for discrimination. It is our national pastime and a game for all.

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

In my opinion, baseball is as big a business as anything there is. It has to be a business, the way it is conducted.

You know, baseball's not stupid. Baseball does what the fans want, usually.

Baseball is about talent, hard work, and strategy. But at the deepest level, it's about love, integrity, and respect.