“There’s a lot of disrespect in the major leagues. I believe that the disrespect in the major leagues is at a high rate and is really bad for the gam”

Barack Obama likes to point to General Motors as the poster child for the job creation success of his economic policies.

My dad and my mom had to sacrifice so much, and had to teach us and show us the way of going about things, how to be humble, all those things. They helped us stay on track for what we wanted to do.

You have to have a lot of motivation, a lot of heart and be able to work hard. You can never be down on yourself because baseball is a sport that will bring you down [at times].

When I got to the stadium, one of my biggest things was watching video of hitters.

I liked playing with David Eckstein (former Angels shortstop). I’m not talking about players with top skills, I’m sure there were players with way more skill than him, but there were very few people in the league that had the heart like him.

I think my mom and dad did a great job with that, because we [with brother] never had any competition in baseball. We always tried to help each other.

If you’re a pitcher and strike me out and show me respect and you don’t show me up, when I get a homer or a hit, I’m not going to show you up. That’s what I believe.

I was very nervous, excited, and happy to be given the opportunity to even be in the major leagues.

One of my most important responsibilities as commissioner of the NBA is to protect the integrity of professional basketball and preserve public confidence in the league and our sport.

I’d like to think that on a lot of teams, I’d be a No.1.

I sponsored every team in the Park Slope Little League for years.

To pray is to dream in league with God, to envision His holy visions.

Finish last in your league and they call you idiot. Finish last in medical school and they call you doctor.

To go from Yale to the National League is simply to go from one form of management to another.

All I ever wanted to be president of was the American League.

Although they can do it all the time, you know, they’re far better than me, on a musically, on a theoretical music level. You know, they’re out of my league.