83 Quotes by Paul Depodesta

The nice thing about baseball is that all of the possible outcomes are known - it's not quite as messy as the real world. That makes the game an excellent playground for probability.

Medicine is so big and so important.

Scouts, by and large, are very industrious, very passionate and very loyal guys.

A philosophy is important so that everyone is on the same page and there's a consistency of message.

Baseball ultimately is a drama without a script. It's the original reality TV.

Are there things you can do with the rest of your personnel or are things you can do schematically to help a quarterback? I think so. But at the end of the day, that quarterback still has to be a driving force of your team, especially if you want to be a consistent winner over time.

I got into baseball, and everyone just started calling me a geek, like, 'There's the nerd from Harvard.' Then it took 20 years of working in baseball and me actually leaving and going to football for people to say, 'He's the baseball guy.' So maybe at some point I'll be known as a football guy too.

I have a little experience in doing things that are unpopular.

I played football in college and what I really wanted to do was be a football coach.