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.

There was nothing to keep him (Cal Ripken, Jr.) from being a star in the Major Leagues. That was inevitable.

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

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.

I gave (pitcher) Mike Cuellar more chances than I gave my first wife.

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.

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