The most cowardly thing in the world is blaming mistakes upon the umpires. Too many managers strut around on the field trying to manage the umpires instead of their teams.

I told the umpires to walk back at least thirty-five feet from home plate. That reduced the arguements.

Baseball is more than a game to me, it's a religon.

There are one-hundred fifty-four games in a season and you can find one-hundred fifty-four reasons why your team should have won every one of them.

Baseball is more than a game to me, it's a religion.

To me, baseball is not a game, but a religion.

An angry player can't argue with the back of an umpire who is walking away.