Some guys are admired for coming to play, as the saying goes. I prefer those who come to kill.

What are we at the park for except to win? I'd trip my mother. I'd help her up, brusher her off, tell her I'm sorry. But mother don't make it to third.

There are only five things you can do in baseball - run, throw, catch, hit and hit with power.

Branch Rickey once said of me that I was a man with an infinite capacity for immediately making a bad thing worse.

It's possible to spend money anywhere in the world if you put your mind to it, something I proved conclusively by running up huge debts in Cincinnati.

To some it's a six-pack, to me it's a "support group". Salvation in a can!

In order to become a big-league manager you have to be in the right place at the right time. That's rule number one.