Coaches are an integral part of any manager's team, especially if they are good pinochle players.

The key step for an infielder is the first one, but before the ball is hit.

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

Coaches are an integral part of any manager's team, especially if they are good pinochle players.

Team speed for Christ's sake. You got bleeping' bleep bleep little fleas on the bleeping' bases getting picked off, trying to steal, getting thrown out, taking runs away from you. You get some big bleep bleepers that can hit the bleeping ball out of ballpark and you can't make any bleep bleeping mistakes.

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.