You win pennants in the off season when you build your teams with trades and free agents.

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

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

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.

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

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.