Learn to know every man under you, get under his skin, know his faults. Then cater to him - with kindness or roughness as his case may demand.

You think the greatest thing in the whole world would be to become a baseball player - if best things already happened, what's next?

I name (Honus) Wagner first on my list, not only because he was a great batting champion and base-runner, and also baseball's foremost shortstop, but because Honus (Wagner) could have been first at any other position, with the possible exception of pitcher. In all my career, I never saw such a versatile player.

He (Honus Wagner) was the nearest thing to a perfect player no matter where his manager chose to play him.

The main idea is to win.

One percent of ballplayers are leaders of men. The other 99 percent are followers of women.

With my team I am an absolute czar. My men know it. I order plays and they obey. If the don't, I fine them.