Piniella Quotes

#1. Lou Piniella only argues on days ending with the letter 'y'.

Ron Luciano

#2. I was looking for a father, he was gone. I hung around with the thugs, and even though they sold drugs, they showed a young brother love.

Tupac Shakur

#3. I remember when I got a call and was told I was traded [to the Yankees in 1974], I actually cried because I liked Kansas City. But coming to the Yankees was the best thing that ever happened to me in my baseball career.

Lou Piniella

#4. A pitching coach is a manager's best friend. He's handling 12 out of the 25 players on the team.

Lou Piniella

#5. My dad died of a stroke.

William Shatner

#6. Statistics are like bikinis-they show a lot but not everything.

Lou Piniella

#7. George [Steinbrenner] is a great guy, unless you have to work for him.

Lou Piniella

#8. Do not defend a music program because it's good for other things. That's like defending kissing because it gives you stronger lip muscles for eating soup neatly.

Anonymous

#9. The true harvest of my life is intangible - a little star dust caught, a portion of the rainbow I have clutched.

Henry David Thoreau

#10. For now more than ever, we must keep in the forefront of our minds the fact that whenever we take away the liberties of those we hate, we are opening the way to loss of liberty for those we love.

Wendell Willkie

#11. 'Swing' is an adjective or a verb, not a noun. All jazz musicians should swing. There is no such thing as a 'swing band' in music.

Artie Shaw

#12. We didn't do anything fancy. We just played blue-collar baseball.

Lou Piniella

#13. Ive gotten a chance to look at their organization and at the same time talk to Chuck and Vince about how they perceive things. Ive come away satisfied that this organization wants to win and get things on track.

Lou Piniella