Tony La Russa Quotes

In Dortmund we had many players from abroad and when you want to put your thoughts in their heads, for example with Pierre-Emerick, you had to switch to English, which is the language most players understand.

Math and science fields are not the only areas where we see the United States lagging behind. Less than 1 percent of American high school students study the critical foreign languages of Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Korean or Russian, combined.

Spanish is my second language. When I started, I was doing interviews in Spanish and had to catch up.

If I had mastered the Spanish language to any extent, I might have gone in that direction.

I speak Spanish because I grew up overseas in Spain, Uruguay and Argentina.

I wish I could speak Spanish, because it would be a lot easier to play more interesting roles.

I don't speak Spanish, and I get so much crap for it. Oddly enough, it was the first language I learned, but somehow I lost it throughout the years. I can understand pieces of it, but I don't speak it. I need to speak it. I want to teach my kids Spanish.

I have never been particularly good with languages. Despite a dozen years of Hebrew school and a lifetime of praying in the language, I'm ashamed to admit that I still can't read an Israeli newspaper. Besides English, the only language I speak with any degree of fluency is Spanish.

My uncle is from Argentina, so I grew up hearing Spanish. My Spanish isn't very good, but my pronunciation isn't terrible.

There is a slam-dunk case for extending foreign language teaching to children aged five. Just as some people have taken a perverse pride in not understanding mathematics, so we have taken a perverse pride in the fact that we do not speak foreign languages, and we just need to speak louder in English.

I think it's important if you're American to have a second language, and Spanish is the language to have.

I speak Spanish to my children and they speak it better than me.

It's always better to speak the language of the team. Not only for the direct contact with everyone - sometimes it also helps you to understand the mentality of the people in the team a bit better.

I might be more fluent in Swedish than I am in Spanish. My wife speaks it to our kids, and they're fluent so I hear it all the time, so I've got that under my belt.

I started in the lowest league in baseball, and I worked my way all the way up to Triple A and then to the big leagues. I never reached the level that I thought I would reach as a player. But that's the way it goes. So then I started from the bottom as a manager, and I worked my way up to managing the Dodgers for 20 years.

I don't speak Spanish. I've done Spanish 1 and 2 classes. My grandma asked me when I was young if I wanted to learn Spanish, and I guess I was young. I should have, because it would have helped me a lot.

All our hiring staff are trained to interview in English. They're trained to look for Westernized segments because we deal with global customers.

Just about every Latin American country has sent players to the big leagues, from the Dominican Republic to Costa Rica.

We need spies that look like their targets, CIA officers who speak the dialects terrorists use, and FBI agents who can speak to Muslim women who might be intimidated by men.

When I was in Mexico and started to dream in Spanish, I knew that was a good sign that I was learning the language. It was cool.

Americans' scandalous incompetence in foreign languages also explains our dangerously inadequate understanding of world affairs.

I think we should have a President who is fluent in at least one language.

Judging ballplayers and turning in reports, giving my opinion of who will get to the big leagues and who will not... I think my baseball judgment was really good.

You can't compete globally unless you have appropriate communication skills.

I don't speak fluent Spanish. I took it in college.