Dusty Baker Quotes on Business & Commerce (6 Quotes)

I know there's a lot of trade speculation, but you have to handle it as if everyone here is going to be here. You don't know what's going to happen exactly.

This is one of those lessons in life. You can't do anything about rumors. I expect Mark to be fine. Mark wasn't one that we wanted to trade. Baltimore asked for Mark. We didn't volunteer Mark. If you look over baseball, Willie Mays got traded, Hank Aaron got traded. I'm glad Mark wasn't traded.

We're not going to call up a lot of players. We'll try to call up guys who deserve it and guys who have had good years and merit being called up. We're not in the giveaway business -- we're in the earning business.

Scott Eyre is a fun-loving guy, but the rest of the guys, especially the new guys we've got, they are all business.

To me, and he may not like it, but I point to him all the time as the way to be. It's not his personality to accept that, but I single him out, which I don't do that often. I say, 'Hey, this is how you want to go about your business. This is how you want to perform. This is how you want to work on fielding, hitting, bunting, everything.

This is a performance business. The better you perform, the more chances you'll get. He's looking for another chance. When Todd Walker was out last year, he had plenty of opportunities to play.