The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided.

It's easy to get good players. Getting them to play together, that's the hard part.

I couldn't have done it without my players.

Johnny Sain don't say much, but that don't matter much, because when you're out there on the mound, you got nobody to talk to.

The trouble is not that players have sex the night before a game. It's that they stay out all night looking for it.

The secret of successful managing is to keep the five guys who hate you away from the four guys who haven't made up their minds.

Son, we'd like to keep you around this season but we're going to try and win a pennant.