Brian Roberts
Brian Roberts
Brian Michael Robertsis an American retired professional baseball second baseman. He made his Major League Baseballdebut with the Baltimore Orioles in 2001 and played for the team until 2013. He played his final season for the New York Yankees in 2014...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBaseball Player
Date of Birth9 October 1977
CountryUnited States of America
league guy leader
I couldn't care less about the leader board. A lot of guys have led the league in something in April and couldn't be found at the end of the season.
technology guy want
I'm a spreadsheet guy. But you get to that moment of truth, and it has nothing to do with a spreadsheet. You've got to factor in what your competitors are doing, what the technology is doing, what your shareholders want, what your employees want, what your customers want, and you've got to make it happen sometimes.
blessed guy ability
I've been blessed with plenty of ability. It's just not as easily noticed as some guys.
want reason-why ordinary
Anytime you do something out of the ordinary, there will be skeptics. Everyone wants a reason why. That's fine. What's happened with me is just an accumulation of a lot of things.
pain growing learning-experience
When you go through growing pains and learning experiences, it makes you tougher down the road.
mistake father names
My father is a marvelous mentor, and if you're going to have a mentor, the ones that work best let you make your own mistakes. You're ready to do your own thing and just at that moment of being unbridled, if somebody's trying to manage you too tightly, it's going to be tough - particularly if that person's got the same last name.
league firsts bigs
The minor leagues were great. When you first sign, that is your big leagues.
sports play world
Everybody wants to play his natural position and play every day, but in the world of professional sports that's not always possible.
sports baseball college
If I weren't playing baseball, I would be a radio or sports broadcaster. In college at South Carolina I did some stuff with the radio station and really liked it.
fall felt
It felt like it was going to fall off.
army civilian pay work
I tell you, I did engineering and earthwork in the Army for 20 years but having to pay for it in the civilian world is new to me. All this development work is costly,
board clear disney interest management putting
It has become clear that there is no interest on the part of Disney's management and board in putting Comcast and Disney together,
arrows
Pioneers are the ones who get the arrows in their backs,
battling night played positive sluggish
I think we showed a lot, battling back after the first night. That was pretty ugly. We could've -- not folded, but we could've come out and played sluggish again. We battled and I think we should take some positive things from that.