Give me some scratching, diving, hungry ballplayers who come to kill you.

As long as I've got one chance to beat you I'm going to take it.

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.

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.