We're the best team in baseball, but not by much.

A baseball manager is a necessary evil.

Baseball is a simple game. If you have good players and if you keep them in the right frame of mind then the manager is a success.

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.

Pete (Rose) doesn't run with celebrities and he can't stand the phonies. His big buddy in LA ain't Sinatra, it's a funny old groundskeeper.

The man I marvel at is the one that's in there day after day, and night after night and still puts the figures on the board. I'm talking about Pete Rose, Stan Musial, the real stars. Believe me, especially the way we travel today, flying all night with a game the next night and then the next afternoon, if you can play one-hundred and sixty-two games, you're a man.

A player does not have to like a manager and he does not have to respect a manager. All he has to do is obey the rules.