Baseball is like church. Many attend few understand.

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

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.

You don't save a pitcher for tomorrow. Tomorrow it may rain.

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

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

Show me a good sportsman and I'll show you a player I'm looking to trade.