"I learned this a long time ago. If you call a guy into your office and shut the door, if theres media around, it sends up a red flag. I never wanted to embarrass a player."

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Source : "The skip’s good-bye". Interview with Mitch Albom, www.mitchalbom.com. November 10, 2013.

Jim Leyland

#Player Quotes #Doors Quotes #Media Quotes

“Americans are uneasy with their possessions, guilty about power, all of which is difficult for Europeans to perceive because they are themselves so truly materialistic, so versed in the uses of power.”
“These guys like each other almost as much as they like themselves.”
“Brazil will change when its cities change.”
“I think what's known about neurology is still scattered and uncertain”
“After all, the universe required ten billion years of evolution before life was even possible; the evolution of the stars and the evolving of new chemical elements in the nuclear furnaces of the stars were indispensable prerequisites for the generation of life.”
“You know, you meet some people, and do a lot of interviews, and you come across a Buck O'Neill and you know you are going to know him for the rest of your life. The same thing happened with Curt Flood.”
“I try to write a certain amount each day, five days a week. A rule sometimes broken is better than no rule.”
“I worry that's what people are going to think about me if they kind of go backwards. But if that didn't happen to you, I'll feel better.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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