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.

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.

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.

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.

It is decidedly not true that 'nice guys finish last'.