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.

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.

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

Momentum? Momentum is the next day's starting pitcher.

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.

I think the National League has better biorhythms in July.