I feel that the most important requirement in success is learning to overcome failure. You must learn to tolerate it, but never accept it

True success is one of the greatest needs. Success is not something you stumble onto or come to by accident. It is something you must sincerely prepare for. Take a good look at successes, and you'll see he same consistent qualities all the time - qualities of one's character that make one strive for a goal with a standard of unmatched excellence.

Babe Ruth was great. I'm just lucky.

When you take a pitch and line it somewhere, it's like you've thought of something and put it with beautiful clarity.

Home run hitters strike out a lot.

People think I hate Billy Martin. I don't. I hate some of the things he did. And I will say I don't understand him. Billy Martin is not an intellectual, but there is a cunningness to him that is something to behold.

The greatest manager has a knack for making ballplayers think they are better than they think they are.