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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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