(11 quotes found)
“[Nominated for a 2005 Tony Award for his luminous staging of] The Light in the Piazza, ... Awake and Sing!.”
Bartlett Sher
“Rule No. 1 is you don't make the third out at third base with Mike Piazza coming up.”
Bobby Valentine
“I asked (Samuels) about Piazza. He told me he was close to signing with a team in the American League.”
Carlos Beltran
“I understand their point of view. (Piazza is) a great player that they got at a discount price. How do you pass up on that?”
Doug Mirabelli
“I'm not Mike Piazza,”
Ramon Castro
“I said, 'You have Vance Wilson, you have Jason Phillips, and you have Mike Piazza. What am I going to do there?' He told me, 'Just trust me,'”
“Piazza is like me picking Intel 15 years ago. One of those comes along once in a lifetime. You're lucky if you own 'em.”
Rich Freeman
“I'm not closing the door on Mike Piazza.”
Omar Minaya
“He'd get frustrated. I'd say, 'O.K., quit hitting 35, 40 jacks, being Mike Piazza, doing the Pert commercials and be the backup catcher you want to be treated like,'”
Al Leiter
“[While Piazza gently tried to deny the rumors and say he had nothing against gays, his father was not as forgiving.] That was the toughest part, the stuff about his personal life, ... I would have handled it differently.”
Mike Piazza