Piniella Quotes & Sayings

George [Steinbrenner] is a great guy, unless you have to work for him. — Lou Piniella

Its contempt for citizens ... is so routine, and so unlimited, that the agency has become a kind of Frankenstein, running wild and terrorizing Americans at will. The IRS hypocritically requires mistake-free returns when its own books are in shambles. It demands exorbitant sums of money without regard to the accuracy of its claims. It doesn't hesitate to use every possible maneuver to get what it wants, sometimes destroying businesses
and lives
in the process. — James Bovard

Lou Piniella only argues on days ending with the letter 'y'. — Ron Luciano

Business colleagues who have not seen each other for a long time but who have a good relationship can always shake hands warmly and grab each other's right upper arm or shoulder with their free left hand. Men and women executives should not kiss each other in public. — Letitia Baldrige

Physics is experience, arranged in economical order. — Ernst Mach

Ive gotten a chance to look at their organization and at the same time talk to Chuck and Vince about how they perceive things. Ive come away satisfied that this organization wants to win and get things on track. — Lou Piniella

When women hold off from marrying men, we call it independence. When men hold off from marrying women, we call it fear of commitment. — Warren Farrell

She tried to focus on the element of riddle or at least puzzle contained in the letter and ignore the sense of doom that was sweeping through her like clouds rolling to the shore over open water. — Sara Sheridan

We ought not to attach ourselves to beings, it is not beings who exist in reality and are amenable to description, but ideas. — Marcel Proust

The bleak autumn wind was still blowing, and the solemn, surging moan of it in the wood was dreary and awful to hear through the night silence. Issac felt strangely wakeful. He resolved, as he lay down in bed, to keep the candle alight until he began to grow sleepy; for there was something unendurably depressing in the bare idea of lying awake in the darkness, listening to the dismal, ceaseless moan of the wind in the wood. ("The Dream Woman") — Wilkie Collins

I remember when I got a call and was told I was traded [to the Yankees in 1974], I actually cried because I liked Kansas City. But coming to the Yankees was the best thing that ever happened to me in my baseball career. — Lou Piniella

You never know what somebody might tell you,' Chris said, 'when they think you're somebody else. — Elmore Leonard

A pitching coach is a manager's best friend. He's handling 12 out of the 25 players on the team. — Lou Piniella

Shagga, cut off his manhood and feed it to the goats." Shagga hefted the huge double-bladed axe. "There are no goats, Halfman." "Make do. — George R R Martin

Statistics are like bikinis-they show a lot but not everything. — Lou Piniella

When it comes to the company you keep, be an equal opportunity enjoyer. — Robert J. Braathe

Let the green girl go! — Stephen Schwartz

Even when mind and strength had gone, gratitude and a mutual tenderness still lived on in the heart of man. — H.G.Wells

I think of myself as a writer who happens to be doing his writing as an anthropologist. — Clifford Geertz

We didn't do anything fancy. We just played blue-collar baseball. — Lou Piniella