My best game plan is to sit on the bench and call out specific instructions like 'C'mon Boog,' 'Get a hold of one, Frank,' or 'Let's go, Brooks.'

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

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

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

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.

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