Jim Beattie Quotes

When it became known that I was going to come up here and interview, a lot of friends from the Boston area and New England who grew up here and went to school here [called me]... About half of them said, 'Good luck and go up there and do a good job.' The others said, 'What the [heck] are you thinking about?' So you have to keep that in perspective. You can only go out there and do the best job you can. And in this case, for me, I have a World Series ring as a player; I would love to have another one. This is one of the best opportunities in baseball to get there.

- Jim Beattie

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