Managing is not running, hitting, or stealing. Managing is getting your players to put out one hundred percent year after year.

You're gonna lose some ball games and you're gonna win some ball games and that's about it.

Pete Rose is baseball.

Success isn't something that just happens - success is learned, success is practiced and then it is shared.

It's a terrible thing to have to tell your fans, who have waited like Detroit's have, that their team won't win it this year. But it's better than lying to them.

I understand people who boo us. It's like going to Broadway show, you pay for your tickets and expect to be entertained. When you're not, you have a right to complain.

The great thing about baseball is when you're done, you'll only tell your grandchildren the good things. If they ask me about 1989, I'll tell them I had amnesia.