Kid Quotes

She got to enjoy the personal side of the players. They were her kids. The Braves were her family.

It’s a very good thing to teach kids to finish what they started in the sense of fulfilling their commitments.

Being just yourself means you’re unselfconscious in that moment.

I don’t want my kids to grow up with no father like I did. I came to the conclusion a while ago that you can work until midnight and not be finished or you can work until 6 or 7 and not be finished. I decided I’d rather work until 6 or 7.

Last but not least my family. My brother Tony, I love you. Thank you for beating me up when I was a kid. I always wanted to follow in your footsteps.

I am a raging alcoholic and a raging addict and I didn’t want to see my kids do the same thing.

Help one kid at a time. He’ll maybe go back and help a few more.

I was a little, uh, incorrigible as a kid, so the kitchen was a good place to give me structure and balance. It taught me hard work, but then I grew to love it.

Even as a kid, I wore J.C. Penney plain-pocket jeans because they were plain pockets.

It’s sort of like in the movie The Karate Kid when Daniel said he needed Mr. Miyagi. And Mr. Miyagi gave him that confidence to believe he really didn’t. These guys think they really need me right now, but they don’t.