56 Quotes by Jim Leyland

I'm glad it happened. If I don't get mad when I should be mad, then I should be home.

I met five presidents. I had dinner with a president of the United States in the White House. I played golf with a president of the United States. I made money. I mean, when I look at it, I had a unbelievably fabulous career. And I'm extremely grateful.

I have no comment. I know the job is open, but I don't know anything.

I just didn't like the way we went about our business. You get some cookies and guys try to hit home runs, and they pop the (expletive) thing up all day long.

I don't pay attention to that stuff. We've turned the page on all of the things from the past.

I don't know if they will Wednesday, but that was a good feeling.

He's more of the show mode than the tell mode.

He pitched great. We only got one hit against him. That pretty much sums it up. But we were into it the whole game and competed out butts off. That's all you can ask for, so I have no complaints.

I had 11 years of managerial experience and four years of coaching before I managed a big-league team. To me, it was important, because I learned a lot through trial and error. And it's tough to have to go through trial and error when you're a big-league manager.