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

In baseball, you can't kill the clock. You've got to give the other man his chance. That's why this is the greatest game.

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.

Some have said that I can accept inadequacies in my players but not in umpires. That completely misses the point. I can't tolerate anyone's mistake.

The job of arguing with the umpire belongs to the manager, because it won't hurt the team if he gets thrown out of the game.

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.

A manager should stay as far away as possible from his players. I don't know if I said ten words to Frank Robinson while he played for me.