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.

If you have to choose between power and speed and it often turns out you have to make that choice, you've got to go for speed.

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

Players have two things to do. Play and keep their mouths shut.

Success is the person who year after year reaches the highest limits in his field.

I've changed my mind about it (DH) - instead of being bad, it stinks.

A baseball manager is a necessary evil.