When I first came into baseball, people didn't want to hear that a team was a business. But it is. And the better the business is run, the healthier the team on the field is going to be.


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The Pumpkins love rock-and-roll, we absolutely love it, but we also think it's a flatulent, ego-serv...
BILLY CORGAN
I have a theory that the only original things we ever do are mistakes.
BILLY JOEL
France is the country where the money falls apart and you can't tear the toilet paper.
BILLY WILDER
France is a place where the money falls apart in your hands but you cannot tear the toilet paper.
BILLY WILDER
I love it when someone insults me. That means I don't have to be nice anymore.
BILLY IDOL
Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.
BILLY JOEL
Only those who want everything done for them are bored.
BILLY GRAHAM
America is said to have the highest per capita boredom of any spot on earth! We know that because we...
BILLY GRAHAM
The men who followed Him were unique in their generation. They turned the world upside down because ...
BILLY GRAHAM
No man ever loved like Jesus. He taught the blind to see and the dumb to speak. He died on the cross...
BILLY GRAHAM
Being a Christian is more than just an instantaneous conversion; it is like a daily process whereby ...
BILLY GRAHAM
God has given us two hands, one to receive with and the other to give with.
BILLY GRAHAM
One of the ridiculous aspects of being a poet is the huge gulf between how seriously we take ourselv...
BILLY COLLINS
Most people miss the great part mental outlook plays in this game.
BILLY MARTIN
I think my securities far outweigh my insecurities. I am not nearly as afraid of myself and my imagi...
BILLY CONNELLY
America's founding fathers did not intend to take religion out of education. Many of the nation's gr...
BILLY GRAHAM
Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.
BILLY GRAHAM
The good days weren't really so good, and tomorrow ain't as bad as it seems.
BILLY JOEL
I've read the last page of the Bible. It's all going to turn out all right.
BILLY GRAHAM
God has a big eraser.
BILLY ZEOLI
I'm comfortable being old... being black... being Jewish.
BILLY CRYSTAL
I've come to realize that life is not a musical comedy, it's a Greek tragedy.
BILLY JOEL
Never invest your money in anything that eats or needs repairing.
BILLY ROSE
A typical day in the life of a heavy metal musician consists of a round of golf and an AA meeting.
BILLY JOEL
Christians should never fail to sense the operation of an angelic glory. It forever eclipses the wor...
BILLY GRAHAM
Comfort and prosperity have never enriched the world as much as adversity has.
BILLY GRAHAM
Churchgoers are like coals in a fire. When they cling together, they keep the flame aglow; when they...
BILLY GRAHAM
Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.
BILLY WILDER
You look marvelous.
BILLY CRYSTAL
An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but a thousand imbeciles ...
BILLY WILDER
I'd worship the ground you walked on if only you walked in a better neighborhood.
BILLY WILDER
They say there's a heaven for those who will wait. Some say it's better, but I say it ain't. I'd rat...
BILLY JOEL
There's nothing better than good sex. But bad sex? A peanut butter and jelly sandwich is better than...
BILLY JOEL
Women need a reason to have sex. Men just need a place.
BILLY CRYSTAL
I steal a kiss from her sleeping shadow moves. 'Cause I'll always miss her wherever she goes. And I...
BILLY CORGAN
I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints.
BILLY JOEL
What most people do is try to find a comfortable persona that they're in alignment with and the ...
BILLY CORGAN