Leadership can be defined in one word - honesty. You must be honest with the players and honest with yourself.

The job of arguing with the umpire belongs to the manager, because it won't hurt the team if he gets thrown out of the game.

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

No one's gonna give a damn in July if you lost a game in March.

I never got many questions about my managing. I tried to get twenty-five guys who didn't ask questions.

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.

I became an optimist when I discovered that I wasn't going to win any more games by being anything else.