Gary Green Quotations

Most of what I was doing was stocking supplies, ... I was looking for an environment where I could place bandages and help nurses.

One-third young guys, one-third in the middle and one-third experienced. It's how you keep a franchise consistently good.

Philly's the early front-runner for the Stanley Cup. Getting Forsberg is really the icing to their cake. He has had his injury problems, and he did get hurt (last season) in Sweden, but he fits right into their mix.

Next year will be a really bright year for the Florida Panthers. The Panthers are on the right track, have their house in order and have the hockey guys in charge.

I can give background information to members or find answers to their road-transport questions directly -- that's my job.

Carlin just wore him down. That was a big league at bat right there.

He was throwing fastballs by them ... that's what it looked like to me from the side. It's not about how hard you throw, it's about location. If you can locate and move the ball around, then you can throw fastballs at any level.

He's a cool guy. He loves music. He's got so many songs on his hard drive, it's unbelievable.

Hopefully we can get him on track as we go on. We're not worried about doing everything at once. Let's just do one thing at a time.

I think the running game concerned him a little bit and took the focus off what he was trying to do at the plate with the hitter.

Outside of that injury-plagued year in Colorado, he'd been completely healthy for the two years before that. So I think with some of the new rules you'll be seeing this year, he'll be right back where he was. People tend to think because he's been such a prominent name that he's 35 or 36 years old, but he's still a young guy with a lot left.

That's what it takes to win is pitching, two-out hits and some pretty good defense. Overall, it was a good effort on all sides.

You just have to keep grinding every day. There's no magic solution to this thing. If there was, we would have pushed that button about 10 days ago.

We caught a break. But you know what, you make your own breaks.

We have a group of people that are committed to the organization and what it stands for. We were proud to be recognized, no doubt about it.

We didn't really swing the bats that well. We took advantage of what they gave us. That's the whole point of the game. It'd have worse if they had done that and we didn't take advantage of it.

The existing-home market is looking like quite a value.

We weren't as sharp as the direction we were headed. We had really good innings, but we had really bad innings, too.

With Jacques, you know they'll be well-coached. As long as Roberto plays well, they should be a significantly improved team.

Everybody has trucks. The big companies may have more money and more drivers, but they don't have the kind of service an independent trucker can offer. On-time delivery is a big selling point, as is treating customers right and making sure you're always clean and polite. Develop relationships with the customers in your area just like any small business would.

The thing that always stuck out in my mind was going to the hospital to see the kids. It was quite an eye-opening experience for me.

Compass Group is proud to embrace a sustainable-seafood policy that will support the health of our oceans. When we learned about the significant impact that our purchasing shift could make, it was clear that this was the right thing to do.

This is at the center for some of those new jobs that are going to shape the economy of tomorrow.

It's all about the process of learning. Sometimes, you have to have something happen to you in order to understand. That's a good learning tool. If he learns from that, he's going to be better off. He's a good player.

It's hard when you get behind in the first few innings by three or four or five runs. From a psychological standpoint ? it's tough to overcome it.

It's rewarding to know you are part of an organization that is behind you. Most of the money we raise stays right here in Racine County. I think we can see progress just in the last couple of years. We'll do everything we can to make sure that just keeps on going.

It's tough to overcome that (deficit), especially early in a game. You get back on your heels.

It's such a fine line with hitting. I wish I had all the answers, especially when it comes to that, trying to put a round bat on a round ball.

They can't feel sorry for themselves. That's just the way this game is. We have to be able to play through it, one pitch at a time, one day at a time. That's why they're at A-ball. Hopefully, they can learn how to do that.

They came out and put some zeroes up on the board and gave us a chance. It was a good effort all the way around.

I'm not saying they wouldn't have scored two or three runs (without the dropped third strike), but at least we've got one out to start the inning. The chances diminish.

If you get a couple of big boys on your schedule, like Purina, and they like your attitude and the way you do business, you'll get all the delivery loads you ever wanted.

In the second game you could start to see our guys catch up with the pitching.

I guess I was naive. I had no idea it would be a black church. I guess I should have put two and two together.

I'd say Toronto is the biggest disappointment only because they didn't prepare for this two years ago. I think they were among those teams that thought the new system would include a luxury tax, like baseball has, and they'd pay that and spend what they wanted. They never thought they'd be in a position where they couldn't just write checks and make everything OK.

All those guys are capable of stepping it up. So Mike (Keenan) might just focus on those one or two areas. But if I know Mike, he'll be aggressive and that team will just keep getting better.