Coach

If you're a coach, and you don't have trust with players, you've got no chance, and your credibility is zero. And that's why it's so important to tell them the truth. If you have something that you're upset about, tell them the truth. If they're doing something wrong, tell them the truth.

My wife and I, we started a foundation about companion animal rescue, but there's a group called Performing Animal Welfare Society just outside of Sacramento... and they offered me a job as an elephant keeper.

If you watch the history of baseball, teams come back, and sometimes they could have come back, but they give in or give up.

I'm not a big 'Moneyball' fan.

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.

Losing sucks. I don't think most people understand how bad it feels.

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.

We're all men, not machines. We make mistakes.

When you don't have the deepest pockets, you better have the best scouting and development.

I was a lousy player with virtually no experience managing.

Winning in Oakland in '89 was distinguished because that was truly a great team on a mission to prove that '88 was not what we represented. I look at that team in awe. It was a push-button team.

My mind is just a product of 50 years of being taught. I'm no smarter than anyone else, but I've been taught by some wonderful people.

If you like to run and the guys can't run, you don't run. If you like power, and you have guys that can't hit it out of the park, then you start moving guys around.

I'm not going to manage again. I'm going to work for a team someday. But it won't be managing.

What you end up doing is you try to match your guy's strength against a place they can be successful. They're doing the same thing against us. Sometimes they have the edge, sometimes you have the edge.

You can't put a price on what Mark McGwire brings to the Cardinals organization. The responsibility he accepts is as great as any number of home runs.

I think the game is so mental. If you sit around and you're mentally strong, you're ready.

I had started law school at Florida State University as a part-timer. I would go two quarters, and they allowed me to drop out to play baseball, and then I'd get readmitted in September. I was convinced I was going to be a lawyer and was using my baseball salary to pay my way through school.

You can't manage by memo. You can't stand up there and just send out edicts. I think you just gotta really personalize your relationships.

Just because you're down to your last strike, you're not out yet. You can always do more. You'll always have more at-bats to take. That's true in baseball, in rescuing animals, and in life, generally.