He’s under contract for the next three years. But if we can extend him on a basis that works for both parties, we will pursue it aggressively.

It’s a little more than I budgeted for, but I always said it’s player specific. Based on what we did, I’m very satisfied.

Our job is to give them an exciting product and make their tickets more affordable, which we’re doing, and get them back to sample the product.

We looked at that bad experience and said this is a great opportunity to use a problem solving strategy we’re going to use in the future under ISO, a process to resolve issues related to...

I didn’t ask if there were any questions.

This guy is a brilliant baseball mind. And as you get to know him, you’re going to see why I made the decision.

With the new ones, not only can’t you feel air, you can’t even hear fire trucks when they go by.

I wanted to get Buck’s first-hand view of the team after a tough road trip. We try to do it a couple of times a year and it was good night to spend the evening...

Now all we can do is wait and see if they want to have a meeting.

Pitching is a priority.

We asked if we could achieve a championship faster doing this deal or not making this deal. We felt we could make it faster doing this deal.

We know we are in a tough division. The three teams we’re competing with have the same expectation of winning the division. That’s our expectation.

I think our bullpen last year matched up with their bullpen this year. We have to get back to the kind of bullpen we had last year.

They walked in and he had a good laugh.

[Stars owner Tom Hicks said the owners are solidly behind Bettman, and he does not expect many differing opinions at the meeting in New York.] There are economic differences between the teams, so I’m sure...

Both sides were able to find middle ground and not go through the alternative of an arbitration hearing. Hopefully that spirit of cooperation will carry over. Obviously three years from now we want to find...

The best thing we can do is develop our own.

It’s disappointing, it really is. Our players know the rules. They know they are going to be tested. If any of them get caught, shame on them. I am disappointed.

He lives 15 minutes from Minute Maid Park, so that’s a big advantage.

There are veteran pitchers out there that we think can help us, … If we can get them, we will.

Man, he really wants to beat these guys.

It’s just a company trying to be opportunistic. I would say the Stars alone are worth somewhere between $250 and $300 million, so it was really just a silly, irrelevant idea.

I’m glad I didn’t sell the team because it really has become special. I can’t believe it’s been 10 years.

There’s no reason the Rangers can’t get to the top.

John has brought a new level of professionalism to the Texas Rangers over the last four years. During his tenure the organization has improved on the field at the major league level while enhancing the...

It means a little stability, a little security.

I told John if he wanted to go back into baseball that I wouldn’t stand in his way, but that he has an important role with us. I told Frank he was welcome to talk...

It’s pretty unbelievable that Texas is the second largest state in terms of population and that we have only two baseball teams. California has five. I think eventually we will have another team. Whether this...

I’ve suffered right along with all the rest of the fans. We lost like seven one-run games. When we hit, we did not pitch. When there was pitching, there was no hitting.

We have experienced problems with the pay stations that we are trying to work through, but it created such a level of customer dissatisfaction that I thought it necessary to remove them from service while...

We want to add an American League pennant… and to bring the World Series to Arlington.

I’m confident in his abilities and for the continued growth of the organization.

He hit three that I didn’t think he got all of and they still went out.

John has an important job here with the Rangers. I want him as part of our team as we move forward and I am glad he has decided to stay with our organization.

We just were talking about what a great time it is for the American Airlines Center to have two teams to go really far in the playoffs. This is the first time we’ve got both...

We’re envious of them,

We have tremendous respect for the player and what he has meant to the game of baseball.

We’re trying to put ourselves in the best position to win, period, if not this year, next year.

He’s got a truly brilliant mind, he’s a walking baseball encyclopedia. I think his youth is an asset to us. ‘¦ I did my first leveraged buyout when I was about that age. Young people...

We doubled the size of our house but in effect we kept the energy use the same.

There are economic differences between the teams, so I’m sure some teams want to get playing because they’re losing money by not playing. But I anticipate we will come out of this with a total...

Baseball is all about pitching, and we know we have to improve our pitching.

There was a strong and unanimous feeling that this (the incident) was something that could not be repaired.

We’re just waiting. We have tremendous respect for the player and what he has meant to the game of baseball. We hope he decides to play. Once he’s made the decision, he’s a player we...

What you don’t want to do is to hang on to the aging superstar past his prime and take resources away you can otherwise use to build a better overall team.

He is a truly brilliant mind. His youth is an asset to us. He’s a truly exceptional talent.

He expressed interest, he wants to talk to his wife about it.

[The offer was to buy the entire league for $3.5 billion. That would average $117 million per team.] It’s just a company trying to be opportunistic, … I would say the Stars alone are worth...

I don’t have the insight with the Longhorns that I do with the two teams that I own, but as a fan and reading the sports pages, I’m bullish about the Longhorns.

It was not a big deal. There’s not a lot of joy in the Rangerdom right now. That’s baseball.