Americans have been remarkably devoted to the capacity for belief, to idealism. That's why we get into trouble all the time. We're always viewed as naive.

All I ever wanted to be president of was the American League.

All I ever wanted to be was president of the American League.

There are a lot of people who know me who can't understand for the life of them why I would got to work on something as unserious as baseball. If they only knew.

This is not the first time in my life where you know going into a job that you're going to hear in stereo what was wrong with what you did.

My goal has been to encourage jointness, to push people to think of affiliations rather than to operate as solo entrepreneurs.