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.

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

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.

I never questioned the integrity of an umpire. Their eyesight, yes.

I never did say that you can't be a nice guy and win. I said that if I was playing third base and my mother rounded third with the winning run, I'd trip her up.

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.

There is a thin line between genius and insanity, and in Larry's (MacPhail) case it was sometimes so thin you could see him drifting back and forth.