I don't think, in all the years I managed them, I ever spoke more than thirty words to Frank and Brooks Robinson.

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

Team speed for Christ's sake. You got bleeping' bleep bleep little fleas on the bleeping' bases getting picked off, trying to steal, getting thrown out, taking runs away from you. You get some big bleep bleepers that can hit the bleeping ball out of ballpark and you can't make any bleep bleeping mistakes.

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

We're so bad right now that for us back-to-back home runs means one today and another one tomorrow.

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

If you know how to cheat, start now.