Tony Perez Quotations

I could feel it in my bones, how I missed the heat of my country and the love of my family.

When it came to foods it was a guessing game.

When we started in business, we'd often come in behind a 14-year-old or 15-year-old kid. That was the competition,

I ended up having to pay, and I used the money, ... I used their money. Now they want me to pay it back, and I don't think that's fair.

He's a scum bag. I just hope he dies.

He should have the record. Barry is still playing, and he's still hitting home runs. To me, he hit the home runs, and he's supposed to break the record. To hit home runs, you've got to hit the ball. It's not easy to hit a 100-mph fastball, or even 95 fastball, out of the park.

I said fine. It didn't matter to me because I just wanted my four (at-bats). I wanted to be in the lineup.

People always told us how much people in Vegas cared for her and all this stuff they did for her. We wanted to see it with our own eyes.

Some guys asked me. 'Who is he?' I told them Placido Domingo. Some guys didn't know who he was. Some guys heard the name,

My wife listens to him all the time. I called her. She told me to ask him to sign a baseball for her. I got them.

I think he's just going through a phase, ... I think he sees that baseball is what he wants to do, what he loves. He has all my support, but he has to be willing to listen. What you say can't go in one ear and out the other.

We have clients on the home side that have five or six computers with the sort of equipment you'd see in a small business,

Whether it's been one person, or a group of families trying to spread the word, no one really knows exactly who started this. We don't know who woke up this sleeping giant in our area, but it's worked.

There are a number of families that are adopting technology just to run their lives.

We already know what it is to lose, and we were pretty good at it the first half of the season, ... Right now, we're learning how fun it is to win, and we're learning how to win in many ways.

To hear words like cutoff man, go to first, go to third, simple things like that. I had to learn how to play the game all over again in English.

At most it was about $2,200 to $2,300,

If she had anything to do with this, she has to pay the price.

I like to do projects around the house. I like to see the differences between Home Depot and Lowe's. It's nice to have a variety.

If he has no ambition and just wants to be in the big leagues and play . . . ... You have to have a goal and follow it.

I definitely believe that small class sizes are better. But I also believe that's what is going to happen.