On my tombstone just write, 'The sorest loser that ever lived.'

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.

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

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

Do the dull things right so the extraordinary things will not be required too often.

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

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