If you know how to cheat, start now.

A manager's job is simple. For one hundred sixty-two games you try not to screw up all that smart stuff your organization did last December.

Some have said that I can accept inadequacies in my players but not in umpires. That completely misses the point. I can't tolerate anyone's mistake.

Bad ballplayers make good managers, not the other way around. All I can do is help them be as good as they are.

Optimism is the cheerful frame of mind that enables a teakettle to sing, though in hot water up to its nose.

Don't worry, the fans don't start booing until July.

Nobody likes to hear it, because it's dull, but the reason you win or lose is darn near always the same - pitching.