Mike Timlin Quotes


You never want to sigh too hard. It's going to be a tough two games. - Mike Timlin



You never know what kind of product you have until you put it out on the field. - Mike Timlin



When you start this game you believe you're going to play forever. That's the reason you play this game, is because it becomes part of you. It's what you do. It's a gift from God. So, you use it to the best of your ability and do what you can with it and then whatever happens in the end, happens in the end. - Mike Timlin



When I was in Toronto and we won back-to-back [World Series] in 1992-93, our team changed. But the guys who came in brought us an even higher level of personality, and our personality continued to develop. Change is part of baseball. It's part of any business. If you don't change, you're stagnant -- and that's not good. - Mike Timlin



What happened to us happens to every champion. We've seen it in basketball. We've seen it in football. We've seen it in boxing. You see it in every sport. Every champion tends to not necessarily relax, but I think maybe you win and you feel like you can take a deep breath. - Mike Timlin