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.

My best game plan is to sit on the bench and call out specific instructions like 'C'mon Boog,' 'Get a hold of one, Frank,' or 'Let's go, Brooks.'

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

Do the dull things right so the extraordinary things will not be required too often.

I'd rather you walk with the bases loaded.

Bad ballplayers make good managers, not the other way around. All I can do is help them be as good as they are.

Optimism is the cheerful frame of mind that enables a teakettle to sing, though in hot water up to its nose.