12 Quotes by ron shelton

Sometimes when I've got a baseball player alone, I'll just read Emily Dickinson or Walt Whitman to him. And the guys are so sweet, they always stay and listen. Course, a guy'll listen to anything if he thinks its foreplay.

I answered the door and he was begging, ... He would kind of follow the Ports around thinking Joe would help him. Nobody knew who it was and Joe later told me who it was.

He literally was demon possessed with the bottle, ... In that regard, he's not like 'Nuke' LaLoosh.

Joe's assignment was to keep an eye on him and be a role model, ... Joe never saw him, except at the ballpark. The idea of a wild, young pitcher who's out of control rooming with a veteran gave me the dramatic possiblity.

I was about five years behind him in the Baltimore Orioles' organization, ... Everyone told Dalkowski stories.

We project it to go to 60 to 70 million board feet by '07.

We've got a lot of those coming online. We're kind of behind the curve on that.

You don't know how it's impacting these kids. It might be making some of them want to do something with their lives,

Any day you can get released. It's the best years of your life, and everybody's playing with this reckless abandon and terror.