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You never know, the way technology is going, we might all use the games for scouting by the time I retire.

My feeling is that when you're managing a baseball team, you have to pick the right people to play and then pray a lot.

This is a great thing that's happening in baseball. We don't know if it will ever happen again.

I am dead set against free agency. It can ruin baseball.

I'm not defined by baseball. I'd love for the Hall of Fame to happen, but if it doesn't, my life won't change. I'll still be coaching my boy's games.

Finally, for all of us but a lucky few, the dream of playing big-time baseball is relinquished so we can get on with grown-up things.

All ballplayers want to wind up their careers with the Cubs, Giants or Yankees. They just can't help it.

Baseball has all the money.

Baseball and its teams are proud of the sport's long-standing role as a change agent in American culture and society.

There's always, I guess, a philosophy that if you come in, you want to change all the parts, you want to change everything over. I've always tried to preach that consistency and continuity are very, very important. So if I know the baseball people, and I know they're competent and could do the job, I don't see any reason to replace them.