Rob Manfred famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I hope that the biggest change in the game is that people are saying that Major League Baseball owns the next generation. That is what I aspire to, everything we're trying to do is about that, and I hope I have enough time and enough help to get that done.
-- Rob Manfred

#Baseball #People #League
My open mindedness is a product of where I came from. When you work in labor relations for a long part of your career you have to embrace the idea that an exchange of ideas can produce creative solutions.
-- Rob Manfred

#Long #Creative #Open Minded
Baseball is actually interesting, I don't find me to be that interesting. But I am realistic enough to understand it's not about me, it's about the fact that I'm speaking for the game and people care so deeply about the game that they're watching to make sure that you do the right thing. And I feel a real responsibility to try to do the right thing as a result.
-- Rob Manfred

#Baseball #Real #Responsibility
I prefer people to disagree with me because I really don't think I'm smart enough to know what all the answers are and I think the back and forth ... we have a lot of it in our office, strong personalities, big intellects, good ideas - I think that back and forth has produced better strategies and tactics for us than if I sat in my office and decided we're doing those 10 things and that's the end of it.
-- Rob Manfred

#Strong #Smart #Thinking
I think that it's an inexact science, but the trick is this: not to quit on anything too soon. All of this takes time. It's an investment.
-- Rob Manfred

#Thinking #Quitting #Investment

Baseball has undergone and absorbed a whole set of dislocations.
I don't know what drives me to succeed. I know I want to always do the best I can.I guess I was maybe in little league baseball as far as I wanted to be good at that. But school, I certainly wasn't the best at that.
There's the South Pole, said Christopher Robin, and I expect there's an East Pole and a West Pole, though people don't like talking about them.
Universities are not here to be mediums for the coercion of other people, they're here to be mediums for the free exchange of ideas.
Find a need and fill it. Successful businesses are founded on the needs of people.
The exclusion of true esoteric religion has been the business of the State since ancient times. At first this was done via the establishment of the popular idealism of exoteric religious institutions in league with the State. But in modern times the same process is done by the strategic exclusion of conventional religious cultism, mystical idealism, and higher evolutionary Wisdom from the mechanisms of popular culture.
It must be thoroughly understood that the lost land will never be won back by solemn appeals to the God, nor by hopes in any League of Nations, but only by the force of arms.
Shut your noise, you old c***!
I tried to push him away with my head. I apologise to everyone. I should not have got involved in it.
I said to NFL spokesman Greg Aiello, 'You realize that's the first time anybody associated with the league has made that connection?' And I remember, he was a litttle... annoyed. He was annoyed.

Rob Manfred famous quotes

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