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.

Problem with (John) Wockenfuss getting on base is that it takes three doubles to score him.

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

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

The day I got a hit off (Sandy) Koufax was when he knew it was all over.

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

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.