Jeffrey Loria Quotations

I wish everybody as they move on in life does well.

If we had gone 11-6 over the last 17 games, we would have won 89-90 games. That's all it would have taken. But you know, baseball is a game of luck, health and bounces. It's hard to play when guys you are counted on are injured. More than half your bullpen had injuries. It was like all the injuries happened at once hit us.

I don't know where he's going or what he's doing. We're in the process of dealing with that now.

I feel sad for the kid, but he's going to have to get himself together. I hope he does because he's got a great talent and a great ability. He has a gift, and it would be a shame to waste that gift.

I can tell you we're certainly trying our best.

If it comes to a point where it is an important meeting and something is significant and they would like my participation, I'm available.

He's got them tough. We're going to win a lot of games. They came out fully prepared to play. This game was decided by one pitch in the dirt. Think about it.

We made the decision that this is the right guy for the right time. The last one worked out beautifully for us. We had three winning seasons and a championship. Joe is going to lead this very young club as we go forward.

Our talks with San Antonio are serious. We like what we see and will continue this process. But like all processes it takes time, and we want to be thorough and deliberate.

I'm hoping we can get this thing moving along. I'm hoping to re-energize (South Florida elected officials). We all have to get together to make this thing happen everybody who wants to save baseball in South Florida.

We've done great things in the last four years. We've done everything we've said we are going to do. And we said we needed a new baseball-only, roof-enclosed stadium.

There's no more time to fool around. The time for posturing is over.

San Antonio is a very viable market. If we can't play here, we'll play somewhere else.

You talk about last year, but in the end, last year wasn't all that good for us. We decided two years ago we had to take a good look at this team after the World Series. We added a little bit to it. But there was a strong feeling in the organization that we might have to rebuild this team. We finally bit the bullet and doing it is part of the whole process.

They're telling us we have to solve our problems here.

It's a killer. It's very disheartening to be in the situation we're in. But we've got no choice. We need to get this thing done, period -- one way or another. I'm not going to be the only one supporting this baseball team -- I mean carrying the team -- financially.

Anyone who can create several hundred different batting stances during his career to get to a .267 batting average is destined to be a great manager,

I liked him very much when I met him and spent some time with him. He has to go through the system like everybody else. Hopefully he'll put his life together. We're praying for him.

I'm optimistic, hopeful that a new stadium will materialize.

I'm optimistic and hopeful that a new stadium will materialize. I'm basically an optimistic person. But some of that optimism disappeared in the last year.

I need resolution, because there are other options. We need to act on those options out of town.

I don't watch a lot of football for fun. I've tried, but I'm always looking to see if the left tackle is holding.

The real value of art is not always revealed by the price set upon it.

I'm interested in the sculptural experience, glass, marble, colored bricks, stones, wood. There's no stadium out there that approximates it [the Marlins'] because it will be so white and with primary colors all around. It sort of looks like a spaceship that just landed, something different, something people can call their own.

I can only tell you at this moment there is nothing going on in South Florida.

The first day at school is always an exciting day but it's also new and different. They'll pass this in 48 hours and they'll be big leaguers.