Jim Leyland Quotes on Baseball (7 Quotes)

This is a big home stand, but it's awful early to say it's huge. We just have to continue to play good baseball. If we do, we'll win games.

He's got more than one way to get a guy out. He's a four-pitch guy who's versatile, who throws strikes and who walked fewer guys than any closer (established) in baseball.

We got good starting pitching again. There's no such thing as momentum in baseball -- you are only as good as your next pitcher.

Baseball. It's time to play some baseball.

This is something all of baseball should be celebrating and it's probably unlikely that they're going to be, to be honest, a lot of people.

I told them I was interested in players, not athletes. I want a baseball player. I can find a lot of guys who can dunk a basketball. I can also find a lot of guys who can't hit one. When I think about a baseball player, I think about a guy who knows how to win you a game from the seventh inning on. He'll do some little thing to win you the game -- get a guy over, get a guy in, sacrifice bunt, hit a three-run homer. Those are the guys that I want. I made it pretty obvious.

He represented the Twins , but I think everyone in baseball felt like they were a teammate of Kirby Puckett.