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

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'd rather you walk with the bases loaded.

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

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

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.

If you know how to cheat, start now.