Pat Gillick famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Building a baseball team is like building a house. You look for the best architects, the best builders - and then you let them do their jobs.
-- Pat Gillick

#Baseball #Jobs #Team
Baseball is about talent, hard work, and strategy. But at the deepest level, it's about love, integrity, and respect.
-- Pat Gillick

#Baseball #Integrity #Hard Work
I was trying to land an 18-year-old strapping first baseman from Blanco, Texas, population 200. His name was Willie Upshaw. It turned out there were only three scouts who knew about Willie - Dave Yocum and I working for the Yankees, and Al LaMacchia from the Atlanta Braves.
-- Pat Gillick

#Yankees #Texas #Atlanta
Texting is a lot like an answering machine. If you don't want to talk to somebody, it's like screening your calls. To me, it's a way of communication, but not one that I favor.
-- Pat Gillick

#Communication #Machines #Texting
My label in Toronto was Stand Pat and I think that was a fair assessment. I tried to be patient, but if a trade came along - big or small - that I thought should be made, I would make it.
-- Pat Gillick

#Thinking #Assessment #Labels
I was lucky to go to work every day for 50 years, to a job that I loved.
-- Pat Gillick

#Jobs #Years #Lucky

There's nothing bad that accrues from baseball.
Talking to Yogi Berra about baseball is like talking to Homer about the Gods.
All play aspires to the condition of paradise...through play in all its forms...we hope to achieve a state that our larger Greco-Roman, Judeo- Christian culture has always known was lost. Where it exists, we do not know, although we always have envisioned it as a garden...always as removed, as an enclosed green place...Paradise is an ancient dream...It is a dream of ourselves as better than we are, back to what we were.
A 2002 Oxford study showed counting sheep actually delays the onset of sleep. It's just too dull to stop us from worrying about jobs and spouses.
You have to enjoy your job; you should wake up every day and love what you do... I honestly do... From the bottom of my heart to the depths of my soul. I'm truly happy.
I often feel that my days in New York City, that I was here for five years, didn't get one job, went on a thousands of auditions and literally did not get a job on a soap, not a movie, not TV, not nothing, although I did do some commercials thank God.
Steve Jobs is the most epic entrepreneur of all time. He served as a guiding light for any emerging businessperson who wanted to learn how things should get done. He'll be looked at as one of the best business leaders of all time, and certainly one of the best tech entrepreneurs.
Rent' was my first professional job, ever.
An artist's job is simply to take the mirror in front of your face and hold it there. It's not to give you any answers. It is simply to take that mirror and point it at you.
We hope we're better. The reality is we had a pretty darn good team last year. But you can't just throw your gloves out there and be good again. We want to take that next step as a team.

Pat Gillick famous quotes

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