He (Gil Hodges) fields better on one leg than anybody else I got on two.

He's a smart-assed kid who's always sassin' people and gettin' away with it.

There's nobody on my ball club that doesn't go from first to third on a base hit, or from second to home. Every time you steal a base, you're taking a gamble on getting thrown out, and taking the bat out of the hitter's hand.

Never wear a backward baseball cap to an interview unless applying for the job of umpire.

My health is good enough about the shoulders.

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.

Two hundred million Americans, and there ain't two good catchers among 'em.