"Baseball is a game, yes. It is also a business. But what is most truly is is disguised combat. For all its gentility, its almost leisurely pace, baseball is violence under wraps"

"All lasting business is built on friendship"

"Raising children is an incredibly hard and risky business in which no cumulative wisdom is gained: each generation repeats the mistakes the previous one made"

"These days baseball is different. You come to spring training, you get your legs ready, you arms loose, your agents ready, your lawyer lined up"

"Television saved the movies. The Internet is going to save the news business"

"The successful man is the one who finds out what is the matter with his business before his competitors do"

"Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business"

"But my observation has been, certainly in the news business, you've got to give 110 percent"

"You know that a given in life in human nature, is that at a sporting event, a baseball game, a football game, you never introduce a politician, is because he'll be booed. I don't care if he's the most beloved person in the world, its part of the game"

"I think, as I've gotten older I have realized what a huge privilege it is to even be in this business. I, more than ever, love what I do"

"I started my own little carpet and upholstery cleaning business. I've done it for 20 years. I live well"