If the guys on the bench were as good as the guys you have out there, they'd be out there in first place.

All in all, I wouldn't call it a bad outing. It was a short outing.

I don't see why you reporters keep confusing Brooks (Robinson) and me. Can't you see that we wear different numbers.

I know a lot of people on the field - players, coaches, managers - are glad that I'm gone.

It's nice to come into a town and be referred to as the manager of the Cleveland Indians instead of as the first black manager.

The way we're going... if I called up another pitcher, he'd just hang up the phone on me.

But I'm not going to walk Barry Bonds, like some teams do, in the first inning with nobody on.