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

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

This guy don't come to the ballpark to beat you. He comes to beat you bad. This (Jackie) Robinson, he plays a ton.

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.

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

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

Breaks like a ball falling off a pool table.