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

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.

The way to get a ball past (Honus) Wagner is to hit it eight feet over his head.

(Bill) Terry, you can ask for more money in the winter and do less in the summer than any ballplayer I know.

The main idea is to win.

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.

No club that wins a pennant once is an outstanding club. One which bunches two pennants is a good club. But a team which can win three in a row really achieves greatness.