Ron Shelton Quotations

We project it to go to 60 to 70 million board feet by '07.

Any day you can get released. It's the best years of your life, and everybody's playing with this reckless abandon and terror.

I answered the door and he was begging, ... He would kind of follow the Ports around thinking Joe would help him. Nobody knew who it was and Joe later told me who it was.

I was about five years behind him in the Baltimore Orioles' organization, ... Everyone told Dalkowski stories.

We've got a lot of those coming online. We're kind of behind the curve on that.

Joe's assignment was to keep an eye on him and be a role model, ... Joe never saw him, except at the ballpark. The idea of a wild, young pitcher who's out of control rooming with a veteran gave me the dramatic possiblity.

He literally was demon possessed with the bottle, ... In that regard, he's not like 'Nuke' LaLoosh.

You don't know how it's impacting these kids. It might be making some of them want to do something with their lives,

I like to see something like this in my neighborhood . . . to see that they haven't forgotten about the black community,

I believe in the Church of Baseball. I tried all the major religions and most of the minor ones. I've worshipped Buddha, Allah, Brahma, Vishnu, Siva, trees, mushrooms and Isadora Duncan. I know things. For instance, there are 108 beads in a Catholic rosary and there are 108 stitches in a baseball. When I learned that, I gave Jesus a chance.