“You put deadlines on people you really don’t want, because that’s how you feel about them.”

I like starting. It’s pretty cool.

The pitcher setting up the batter. It’s chess, and you play with it.

Pitches are like pages of a book; they’re so important.

The chess game; how I set you up early, and how I’ll do it differently later.

Announcers don’t do enough of the cat-and-mouse strategy and all the work that goes into it.

I did not want to leave the Mets and I did not want to leave New York.

You watch a broadcast and guys get the pitches wrong.

To be honest with you, I’d rather not be working. When you work, there are all sorts of deadlines and pressures. I like to do one thing and take my time to do the other one.

There’s nothing an artist needs more – even more than excellent tools and stamina – than a deadline.

I’ve learned over decades of building that a deadline is a potent tool for problem-solving.

The closer the deadline, the more likely you’ll start thinking waaay outside the box.

In journalism, if there’s a hole in your story you figure out a way around it because you’ve got a 4 p.m. deadline.

With a television series, there’s a hard deadline, and so you have to write even when you’re not writing well.

One, I push my deadlines closer than anybody else, or let’s say it this way: I’m really late.

Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.