It's a sensitive thing, playing major league baseball.
I've said this: If Jim Leyland had been in my place, he'd have the 2,000 wins and I'd have 1,000. Leyland is the greatest.
It's easy to figure out whether you're getting stale. All you've got to do is look in the mirror and be honest with yourself.
You know, I think when you coach or you manage, you make decisions, and there's some that are really, really tough.
Basically, hitters fall into a pattern, and once you know what they like, you can set them up for the putout with something else.
I like to think I play rugby as it should be played - there are no yellow or red cards in my collection - but I cannot say I'm an angel.
Right through to the end of the last World Cup game, I still couldn't bear the thought of not being perfect or letting people down.
When you're obsessive, like me, searching for something unattainable can become unhealthy... it's like falling through the air and grabbing at the clouds.
Playing the game, representing the team, giving my all and never letting go has meant everything to me.
When Republicans used reconciliation in 2001 for the Bush tax cuts, they used it to increase the deficit. The whole purpose of reconciliation is for deficit reduction!
Certainly I had my preference, and I very much hoped that George W. Bush would be our next president.
The Yankees have better starting pitchers than Arizona. Arizona just has two... the Yanks have four.
We realize too late that President Bush shouldn't have taken us into Iraq, and President Obama shouldn't have taken us out.
I was the worst hitter ever. I never even broke a bat until last year when I was backing out of the garage.
There's been an increase in the number of Iraqis in training, but more Americans are dying and violence is increasing.
Followers are the customers of the Higher Ground Leader, who strives to meet or exceed the outer and inner needs of followers.
American culture is CEO obsessed. We celebrate the hard-charging heroes and mythologize the iconoclastic visionaries. Those people are important.
You give them recommendations. You throw different angles at them where, hopefully, they can get something out of it.
In the minds of great managers, consistent poor performance is not primarily a matter of weakness, stupidity, disobedience, or disrespect. It is a matter of miscasting.
The most important aspect of leading is knowing oneself. Know yourself, know the people around you, and then get on with it.
If you look back at President Bush, nobody agreed with his policies, but you understood that he was doing things that he believed was right.
