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

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.

Baseball is like church. Many attend few understand.

God watches over drunks and third baseman.

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.

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.

In the olden days, the umpire didn't have to take any courses in mind reading. The pitcher told you he was going to throw at you.