A manager should stay as far away as possible from his players. I don't know if I said ten words to Frank Robinson while he played for me.

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

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.

On my tombstone just write, 'The sorest loser that ever lived.'

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

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

Every time I fail to smoke a cigarette between innings, the opposition will score.