22 Quotes by Patrick Anderson

There comes a point in labor-management negotiations when you have to think about the survival of your bargaining partner, and we are well past that point. The Delphi bankruptcy put a flamethrower on a grim reality that's been evident for some time.

Everyone thought I was the underdog, but we showed them.

A crisis is a terrible thing to waste. It should give people, institutions and politicians the necessary courage to implement change.

No two ways about it, the July report is bad news. We will have the highest (jobless) rate in the country, or be darn near it.

Delphi can survive. But it will be a much different Delphi.

This is a powerful message to Delphi and its unions. Any deal that keeps people working is better than having the plants closing and everybody losing their jobs.

It's not so much a rah?rah type of thing. It's just going after it every day. It's 140 games. When we were going well, 11?game winning streak, little things were happening. Balls were falling in. Guys were just competing. We have to do the same thing when we're struggling. These kids compete every day.

It's mostly concentration, being consistent every day with his early work and preparing himself for a game. When he watches the ball all the way through and gets good pitches to hit, he has a chance. You start getting frustrated and when you get frustrated you get in a slump, so to speak. You're overdoing things. You're trying to do too much. That's what he got into.

It was possible for people with a high school education to get a job that paid $75,000 to $100,000 and six weeks of paid vacation. Those jobs are disappearing. The ... low-skill, upper-middle-class way of life is in danger.