27 Quotes by Drayton McLane

He was one of the first to contact me.

It hurt personally because I had such admiration for Ken and Enron. But that was the right thing to do at the time.

It hurt for a minute, but now I'm ready to go. We're still in charge. It will just make it all the more meaningful when we do win it in St. Louis.

I think we have a better opportunity than any other team. I think the key time will be the winter meetings.

We're very, very excited about Preston Wilson. His enthusiasm is as sky high as ours is. He wants to be a champion, and we are still committed to being that champion. We want to go back to that World Series and win the World Series.

(Boras) updated me. He's still negotiating. We're still in it, but the time is getting short. They've given us no indication (Beltran is close to signing with the Mets). We're patiently waiting for some positive developments. We have three days to go, and in baseball, that's a long way to go. We did not change our offer in any way.

Each year, with our players, I ask them what their goals are. I said, 'Roy, what is one of your goals?' He said, 'To own a bulldozer.' That kind of took me back a little bit. I had never heard that before.

You're going to get me in trouble with the commissioner (Bud Selig).

It was our desire to get to the World Series, and we did that. But we wanted to win. Our mission is to win the World Series, and we'll get to work on that in the morning.