Pat Gillick quote: "Building a baseball team is like building a house. You look for the best architects, the best builders

Safeco Field is a lot like a National League park. Because of that, we're more of a pitching-def...
PAT GILLICK

If I was involved with the NFL, I'd seriously consider adopting some of the rules used in Canada...
PAT GILLICK

For me, the most important thing is running a good clubhouse. The X's and the O's - you sit ...
PAT GILLICK

I was lucky to go to work every day for 50 years, to a job that I loved.
PAT GILLICK

Philadelphia loves its team, and being able to win a World Series for the city, fans, players and ou...
PAT GILLICK

We fought like heck for every player and every advantage, but we knew we were part of something bigg...
PAT GILLICK

There's always, I guess, a philosophy that if you come in, you want to change all the parts, you...
PAT GILLICK

At the high school level, the coaches get these kids in revenue-driven sports and take them away fro...
PAT GILLICK

My label in Toronto was 'Stand Pat' and I think that was a fair assessment. I tried to be pa...
PAT GILLICK

What was the first name of the Houston club? It wasn't the Astros. It was the Colt .45s. A lot o...
PAT GILLICK

Texting is a lot like an answering machine. If you don't want to talk to somebody, it's like...
PAT GILLICK

Baseball is about talent, hard work, and strategy. But at the deepest level, it's about love, in...
PAT GILLICK

No matter how much technology changes scouting, no matter how much free agency and big TV contracts ...
PAT GILLICK

You need to have camaraderie in the clubhouse. Wherever you're working, be it a baseball team or...
PAT GILLICK

I was trying to land an 18-year-old strapping first baseman from Blanco, Texas, population 200. His ...
PAT GILLICK

When you talk about the American League, you think of Fenway. When you talk about the National Leagu...
PAT GILLICK

Maybe I'm putting my neck on the line, but I think his is the best situation I've come into. I think...
PAT GILLICK

In a situation, sometimes you have to roll the dice. What do we need, an outfielder or another pitch...
PAT GILLICK

He's run through a couple of rough ones, but we think he's definitely going to bounce back and take ...
PAT GILLICK

He's got a little bit of baggage. We don't need any distractions.
PAT GILLICK

I don't think you can be too impulsive. At the right point, when you see a window open, then you got...
PAT GILLICK

We had a good situation with Howard and Thome here,
PAT GILLICK

They say one's weakness can be another strength but my strengths can lead to anothers demolition
PAT

I like how the other guys are stepping up. If we keep this up, then Bell does not have to score 25 p...
PAT WILLIAMS

Coaching in the NBA is not easy. It's like a nervous breakdown with a paycheck.
PAT WILLIAMS

We were so bad last year, the cheerleaders stayed home and phoned in the cheers.
PAT WILLIAMS

We can't win at home. We can't win on the road. As general manager, I just can't figure ...
PAT WILLIAMS

Great leaders have a heart for people. They take time for people. They view people as the bottom lin...
PAT WILLIAMS

We got a little waylaid along the way. The whole problem started about 10 years ago with management ...
PAT TRAVERS

I'm just gonna be doing stuff that I really enjoy doing. I'm not gonna attempt to be current...
PAT TRAVERS

I had a lousy marriage and I drank too much.
PAT TRAVERS

I needed an opportunity to get back in the studio and get my recording chops back together.
PAT TRAVERS

I have nothing but contempt for Gadhafi. I'm not a Gadhafi supporter in any way. However, it'...
PAT TOOMEY

If you have a federal government that's not enforcing the law and does not preserve the integrit...
PAT TOOMEY

I'm the guy who's started businesses, I've been a small business owner. I've employe...
PAT TOOMEY

After 2003, we lowered taxes across the board. And by 2004, revenue to the federal government grew. ...
PAT TOOMEY

I'm the guy that has written at great length about exactly how we should profoundly reform Socia...
PAT TOOMEY

I think it's the broadest source of dissatisfaction amongst Republicans, out-of-control spending...
PAT TOOMEY

I think it's a fundamental responsibility of the federal government to enforce our nation's ...
PAT TOOMEY

You can see how dysfunctional this Congress is.
PAT TOOMEY

If you don't get spending under control, eventually you're going to have a big tax increase.
PAT TOOMEY

I tend to look at things from the supply side, looking for ways to make it less expensive to do more...
PAT TOOMEY

The toughest thing to do in politics is to do the right thing when your supporters think the right t...
PAT TOOMEY

I've heard time and again from small business owners in Ohio that extending bonus depreciation i...
PAT TIBERI

It's easy: if you want to grow the economy, encourage job creation, and increase federal revenue...
PAT TIBERI

I was like, 'I don't know if I could be an Olympian...' But my dad really influenced me ...
PAT SUMMITT

I lost my confidence.
PAT SUMMITT

I don't want to sit around the house. I want to be out there. I want to go to practice. I want t...
PAT SUMMITT

I remember standing on a medal podium at the 1976 Montreal Olympics, imbued with a sense that if you...
PAT SUMMITT

I can remember trying to coach, trying to figure out schemes, and it just wasn't coming to me.
PAT SUMMITT

I'd wake up in the morning and I would think, 'Where am I?' I'd have to gather mysel...
PAT SUMMITT

In my case, symptoms began to appear when I was only 57. In fact, the doctors believe early-onset Al...
PAT SUMMITT

Most people get excited about games, but I've got to be excited about practice, because that'...
PAT SUMMITT

I hate to sound this way but, 'Why me? Why me with dementia?'
PAT SUMMITT

Sometimes I draw blanks.
PAT SUMMITT

I think that a lot of people would perceive my style as being intimidating. And although I don't...
PAT SUMMITT

I remember teaching a clinic to other coaches, and a guy raised his hand and asked if I had any advi...
PAT SUMMITT

I'm not a good loser. I get sick physically... I take it to heart. I hate it.
PAT SUMMITT

When you grow up on a dairy farm, cows don't take a day off. So you work every day and my dad al...
PAT SUMMITT

Competition got me off the farm and trained me to seek out challenges and to endure setbacks; and in...
PAT SUMMITT

We keep score in life because it matters. It counts. It matters. Too many people opt out and never d...
PAT SUMMITT

I think I can help others just by my example.
PAT SUMMITT

The game is never over. No matter what the scoreboard reads or what the referee says, it doesn't...
PAT SUMMITT

I've got a great staff and great support system, and I'm going to stick my neck out and do w...
PAT SUMMITT

Class is more important than a game.
PAT SUMMITT

Sometimes I'm more stubborn than I am smart.
PAT SUMMITT

My MELD score was pretty high. And the worse you get on that scale, the sooner you get a transplant....
PAT SUMMERALL

There were a couple of things in the intervention that made me know I needed help. One was a letter ...
PAT SUMMERALL

I know I had been successful in football. I had been successful in broadcasting. I didn't think ...
PAT SUMMERALL

Seemed like everything I tried to do in broadcasting and as a player before that turned out successf...
PAT SUMMERALL

So, I didn't get moved up because of celebrity status or anything like that. I got in line, and ...
PAT SUMMERALL

Well, to take me from where I was, and the life I was leading, to the life I lead now with the churc...
PAT SUMMERALL

But like Mrs. Ford, I think that the more people realize what a difficult and what an insidious dise...
PAT SUMMERALL

When someone saves your life and gives you life, there's gratitude, humility; there's a time...
PAT SUMMERALL

In football, there were drinks available everywhere you looked. On a golf tournament, you could find...
PAT SUMMERALL

If I went in to pitch this show to a network, I would be laughed out of the room.
PAT SAJAK

I said yes, which turned out to be the right answer.
PAT SAJAK

I wouldn't be surprised to learn that Clinton cost John Kerry more votes than he gained for him ...
PAT SAJAK

I'm more concerned about members of Congress being drug-free than I am about members of the Yank...
PAT SAJAK

Sometimes you just stumble into something that works, and here I am a quarter of a century later.
PAT SAJAK

That's the trouble with trying to influence an undecided voter. First you have to find one.
PAT SAJAK

The most important political task facing the out-of-power party - the Democrats for now - is creatin...
PAT SAJAK

Being a conservative in Hollywood is like walking into a shooting range with a bull's-eye attach...
PAT SAJAK

Anyone who has seen me spin that heavy, giant wheel on television knows that I'm not a steroid u...
PAT SAJAK

I mean the terrorists are - are like a pimple, like a boil. They'll go away.
PAT ROBERTSON

I think the Democrats are catering to them, but, you know, in the entire history of the United State...
PAT ROBERTSON

But if there's an erosion at home, you know, Thomas Jefferson warned about a tyranny of an oliga...
PAT ROBERTSON

God created the world; the laws of nature were created by God. True science tries to find out what G...
PAT ROBERTSON

In Europe, the big word is tolerance. You tolerate everything.
PAT ROBERTSON

It's the tyranny of an oligarchy that I'm concerned about.
PAT ROBERTSON

I know one man who was impotent who gave AIDS to his wife and the only thing they did was kiss.
PAT ROBERTSON

Islam is a violent, I was going to say religion, but it's not a religion. It's a political s...
PAT ROBERTSON

I just think it's shocking how many of these young people wind up in prison and they get turned ...
PAT ROBERTSON

The Ten Commandments are the most visible symbol because these commandments are recognized by Christ...
PAT ROBERTSON

The Supreme Court has insulted you over and over again, Lord. They've taken your Bible away from...
PAT ROBERTSON

I hate Alzheimer's. It is one of the most awful things because, here is a loved one, this is the...
PAT ROBERTSON

It seems to me the Washington Monument is a symbol of America's power. It has been the symbol of...
PAT ROBERTSON

I mean, if a person acts irresponsibly in his own life, he will pay the consequences. And it's n...
PAT ROBERTSON

Feminism encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy...
PAT ROBERTSON

The founding document of the United States of America acknowledges the Lordship of Jesus Christ beca...
PAT ROBERTSON

Well the basic thesis is that there's a god in heaven who is all powerful who wants to help peop...
PAT ROBERTSON

People who hate God... take it out on innocent people.
PAT ROBERTSON

I'm parodied as being some right-wing fundamentalist extremist, it just isn't true. The paro...
PAT ROBERTSON

Feminism is a socialist, anti-family, political movement that encourages women to leave their husban...
PAT ROBERTSON

I have a zero tolerance for sanctimonious morons who try to scare people.
PAT ROBERTSON

Whatever it takes to win.
PAT RILEY

Public life is regarded as the crown of a career, and to young men it is the worthiest ambition. Pol...
PAT RILEY

You can never have enough talent.
PAT RILEY

All I did from day-to-day is coach. That's what my job was, that's what my passion was, and ...
PAT RILEY

Don't let other people tell you what you want.
PAT RILEY

The Ten Commandments were not a suggestion.
PAT RILEY

There's no such thing as coulda, shoulda, or woulda. If you shoulda and coulda, you woulda done ...
PAT RILEY

A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency...
PAT RILEY

Great effort springs naturally from great attitude.
PAT RILEY

There's always the motivation of wanting to win. Everybody has that. But a champion needs, in hi...
PAT RILEY

I will never be an insider. I want to be the champion of people who don't have insiders and lobb...
PAT QUINN

I have a job to do on policy. And I think that's what people want their governor to do. Not poli...
PAT QUINN

I don't aspire to have high approval ratings. I aspire, in light of my two predecessors, to be t...
PAT QUINN

I'd learned some things. I knew you weren't supposed to hold a good wine at the top - the pa...
PAT PAULSEN

I read an article that said one in five Americans thinks Elvis is alive. I want to find those morons...
PAT PAULSEN

I came down to Orange because I sold the Smothers Brothers a song called 'Chocolate,' and th...
PAT PAULSEN

It's tough campaigning, kissing hands and shaking babies.
PAT PAULSEN

I've upped my standards. Now, up yours.
PAT PAULSEN

Now that my wine has been served in the White House, why not me? Who could talk to farmers better th...
PAT PAULSEN

In America, any boy can grow up to become president. Or, if he never grows up, vice president.
PAT PAULSEN

I admit I do have some drawbacks and limitations as a candidate. Although I am a professional comedi...
PAT PAULSEN

Only a cheap politician, greedy for political gain, would try to single out one individual for blame...
PAT PAULSEN

So I got into growing grapes, not realizing that there was a heck of a lot more to it than meets the...
PAT PAULSEN

I will not claim I will solve all the world's problems by myself. If I did, I'd have to run ...
PAT PAULSEN

Should we continue to spend billions to subsidize foreign military dictatorships, or should we conce...
PAT PAULSEN

Will I obliterate national debt? Sure, why not?
PAT PAULSEN

Having a comic in the White House will assure stability in foreign relations. The world will continu...
PAT PAULSEN

We've got to step up our conservation efforts before it's too late. We're not protecting...
PAT PAULSEN

If you're old enough to be arrested, you're old enough to carry a gun.
PAT PAULSEN

The No. 1 cause of forest fires is trees.
PAT PAULSEN

The federal government spends millions to run the Postal Service. I could lose your mail for half of...
PAT PAULSEN

Wine is something to enjoy. We get sick and tired of people who pick it apart and talk about its ...
PAT PAULSEN

Deep down, I happen to be very shallow.
PAT PAULSEN

All the problems we face in the United States today can be traced to an unenlightened immigration po...
PAT PAULSEN

We have nothing to fear but fear itself... and, of course, the boogieman.
PAT PAULSEN

A gun is a necessity. Who knows if you're walking down a street and you spot a moose?
PAT PAULSEN

Some days you feel like this is really going well. You can tell. Other days, you're just drawing...
PAT OLIPHANT

I don't think there's more than half-a-dozen cartoons that I've been really truly happy ...
PAT OLIPHANT

One-newspaper towns are not good because all the surviving newspaper does is print money. They make ...
PAT OLIPHANT

If it were not for the fact that editors have become so timorous in these politically correct times,...
PAT OLIPHANT

I've been in Washington ever since 1981, trying to get out!
PAT OLIPHANT

Even if you go to Australia today, it's very much like visiting a state you haven't been to.
PAT OLIPHANT

Journalism was looked upon as a more noble thing than it is now. I don't know if it carries the ...
PAT OLIPHANT

We're all idealistic when young.
PAT OLIPHANT

There has always been quite a strong black and white art tradition in Australia, with quite a large ...
PAT OLIPHANT

I see myself as an artist who happens to do cartoons.
PAT OLIPHANT

I've always looked upon politics as a very boring thing. Politics never interested me as much as...
PAT OLIPHANT

I hate changes of administrations, because I have all my villains in place and they are all taken aw...
PAT OLIPHANT

So many cartoonists draw the same year after year. When they find a style, they stick with it. They ...
PAT OLIPHANT

I can always see what I've done wrong. I'm always learning. I'm the perennial student.
PAT OLIPHANT

There were dragons to slay in the old days. Nixon was a good dragon.
PAT OLIPHANT

The fact that we're protected under that Constitution in exercising the right of free speech, it...
PAT OLIPHANT

An outsider's point of view is always handy.
PAT OLIPHANT

I have a very positive outlook.
PAT NIXON

I don't have time to worry about who I admire or who I identify with.
PAT NIXON

I only know what I read in the papers.
PAT NIXON

The truth sustains me.
PAT NIXON

I do or die, but I never cancel out.
PAT NIXON

It takes heart to be in political life.
PAT NIXON

I never had time to dream about being anyone else.
PAT NIXON

I'd like to work on job and educational opportunities for all.
PAT NIXON

If I had a choice, I'd rather be admired less and have my husband tormented less. I'd prefer...
PAT NIXON

I don't have time to be depressed.
PAT NIXON

I think a person has to just be herself.
PAT NIXON

I have always tried my best to do what I thought was the right thing at the time.
PAT NIXON

I have made my own decisions ever since my father died.
PAT NIXON

I have sacrificed everything in my life that I consider precious to advance the political career of ...
PAT NIXON

I'll have to have a room of my own. Nobody could sleep with Dick. He wakes up during the night, ...
PAT NIXON

I didn't know what it was not to work hard as I grew up.
PAT NIXON

I'm a perfectionist. I won't do a thing without trying to do it well.
PAT NIXON

I always look forward, not back.
PAT NIXON

All lives have triumphs and tragedies, laughter and tears, and mine has been no different. What real...
PAT NIXON

All lives have triumphs and tragedies, laughter and tears, and mine has been no different.
PAT NIXON

I love my husband. I believe in him, and I am proud of his accomplishments.
PAT NIXON

I feel there's enough seriousness in the world without seeing it in the theatre.
PAT NIXON

Being first lady is the hardest unpaid job in the world.
PAT NIXON

I've been blessed with a wonderful husband, two caring daughters and sons-in-law, and four reall...
PAT NIXON

I'm in semi-retirement, but what am I going to retire to? I don't ride horses, I don't g...
PAT MORITA

I went from being an ailing child to a public enemy.
PAT MORITA

Only in America could you get away with the kind of comedy I did.
PAT MORITA

I didn't have a childhood.
PAT MORITA

I began in an era where four-letter words were not allowed.
PAT MORITA

A lot happens in 20 years.
PAT MORITA

Thanks to the Japanese and Geronimo, John Wayne became a millionaire.
PAT MORITA

I still have a young attitude.
PAT MORITA

The idea of a Japanese comedian was not only a rarity, it was non-existent.
PAT MORITA

It's been a career filled with very low valleys and some wonderful, high peaks.
PAT MORITA

I don't know of any other creature on earth other than man that will sit in a corner and cry bec...
PAT MORITA

Hip Nip just sounds groovy. A drummer laid it on me.
PAT MORITA

You may have heard that back in the States there are some people who are smoking grass. I don't ...
PAT MORITA

I never was able to do karate. That's calling me a good actor. I act like I can do anything.
PAT MORITA

Media and technology are our greatest assets. And yet, they are our most undervalued and underused a...
PAT MITCHELL

I spend a lot of time on college campuses, a lot of time mentoring young women in all sectors of bus...
PAT MITCHELL

TED Women isn't championing a cause; it's surfacing and sharing some of the most important i...
PAT MITCHELL

I think journalists and filmmakers are keen observers. And actors must also be sharp observers as th...
PAT MITCHELL

Building a baseball team is like building a house. You look for the best architects, the best builders - and then you let them do their jobs.

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Building a baseball team is like building a house. You look for the best architects, the best builders - and then you let them do their jobs.

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