Bad ballplayers make good managers, not the other way around. All I can do is help them be as good as they are.

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

The guy who says, 'I love the challenge of managing,' is one step from being out of a job. I don't welcome any challenge. I'd rather have nine guys named Robinson.

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

The only thing that matters is what happens on the little hump out in the middle of the field.

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

Bad ballplayers make good managers, not the other way around. All I can do is help them be as good as they are.