The key step for an infielder is the first one, but before the ball is hit.

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

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.

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.

On my tombstone just write, 'The sorest loser that ever lived.'

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

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