Just give me 25 guys on the last year of their contracts; I'll win a pennant every year.

Explaining why he was forced to cut a utility player: You just got caught in a position where you have no position.

Pete Rose is baseball.

Casey (Stengel) knew his baseball. He only made it look like he was fooling around. He knew every move that was ever invented and some that we haven't even caught on to yet.

I'm beginning to see Brooks [Robinson] in my sleep. If I dropped a paper plate, he'd pick it up on one hop and throw me out at first.

I managed 26 years and found out when I retired I didn't own the game. I thought I owned it when I was managing all those years. You can climb to the top of the mountain, get down on your knees and kiss the ground, because you'll never own that mountain. That mountain is only owned by one single person, and he'll never give it up. That's the way baseball is.

You can be whoever you want to be, you just have to want it bad enough.