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

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

Don't worry, the fans don't start booing until July.

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

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

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

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