Momentum is only as good as tomorrow's starting pitcher.

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.

Economics played a role. Raleighs have gone from six fifty to nine dollars a carton, but there's a three-quarter cent coupon on the back. You can get all kinds of things with them, blenders, everything. I saved up enough one time and got Al Bumbry.

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

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

Do the dull things right so the extraordinary things will not be required too often.

The only thing that matters is what happens on the little hump out in the middle of the field.