A manager's job is simple. For one hundred sixty-two games you try not to screw up all that smart stuff your organization did last December.

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

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.

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

I became an optimist when I discovered that I wasn't going to win any more games by being anything else.

No one's gonna give a damn in July if you lost a game in March.

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