The key to winning baseball games is pitching, fundamentals, and three run homers.

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

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

The Chinese tell time by 'The Year of the Horse' or 'The Year of the Dragon.' I tell time by 'The Year of the Back' and 'The Year of the Elbow.' This year it's 'The Year of the Ulnar Nerve.' Someone once asked me if I had any physical incapacities of my own. 'Sure I do,' I said. 'One big one - Jim Palmer.'

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.