Chris Pittaro is the best rookie I've had in 15 years.

Inner peace is not found in things like baseball and world championships. As long as I feel I've done the best job I possibly could, I'm satisfied.

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

Every 24 hours the world turns over on someone who was sitting on top of it.

Am I a great manager? Huh. I was blessed to have a front office that found great talent, and then I was smart enough to stay the hell out of their way.

The players make the manager, it's never the other way.

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.