I believe in rules. Sure I do. If there weren't any rules, how could you break them?

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

If you don't win, you're going to be fired. If you do win, you've only put off the day you're going to be fired.

Five runs ahead and he'd knock in all the runs I could ask for. One run behind and he was going to kill me.

And luck? I've always said about Dizzy Dean that if the roof fell in and Diz was sitting in the middle of the room, everybody else would be buried in the debris and a gumdrop would drop into his mouth.

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.

When you're in professional sports, winning is the only thing that matters.