If you haven't understood the world you're living in, it's impossible to think that the solution you're coming up with fits.
We love our business. We have never been more enthusiastic about cable and its future.
If I weren't playing baseball, I would be a radio or sports broadcaster. In college at South Carolina I did some stuff with the radio station and really liked it.
Everybody wants to play his natural position and play every day, but in the world of professional sports that's not always possible.
The minor leagues were great. When you first sign, that is your big leagues.
I'm a spreadsheet guy. But you get to that moment of truth, and it has nothing to do with a spreadsheet. You've got to factor in what your competitors are doing, what the technology is doing, what your shareholders want, what your employees want, what your customers want, and you've got to make it happen sometimes.
When you go through growing pains and learning experiences, it makes you tougher down the road.
What marketers used to do is make average products for average people. That's what mass marketing is. They would ignore the geeks, and - God forbid - the laggards. It was all about going for the center. I don't think that's the strategy we want to use anymore.
Historians ought to be precise, faithful, and unprejudiced; and neither interest nor fear, hatred nor affection, should make them swerve from the way of truth.
It's not just self defense, it's about. . . self control, body discipline, and mind discipline. . . and breath techniques. It involves yoga. It involves meditation. It's an art, not a sport.
We will never be able to fix a rigged system by counting on the same people who rigged it in the first place.