I hated the Yankees and Dodgers and wound up managing both.

One win­ter, when I was 12, my older brother Frank (20) said to my father, 'We want you out of the house. We don't want any­thing other than the house we live in. We don't want any­thing from you. Just leave.' And he left.

The second you think you've arrived, someone passes you. You have to always be in pursuit.

I hated the Yankees and Dodgers and wound up managing both.

I am deeply saddened and shocked at the loss of umpire Wally Bell.

It's my job that if somebody wants to have a discussion about something, I'm certainly sensitive to that, and I'm willing to do it.

When I was 16 years old, my brother Frank said, 'You'd better become a catcher, because you're too big and fat to do anything else.' Well, I took his advice. It was a quick way to get to the big leagues, and I've never regretted it.