When I took the job as the manager of the Olympic team, I didn't take it because I was a Dodger. I did it because I was an American, and I wanted to bring that gold medal where it belongs in baseball, the United States. And that's exactly what our team did.

I do not care whether you're a Democrat or you're a Republican or an independent. We must pull for the people who are wearing the uniform of the armed forces. These people weren't drafted. They enlisted, because they believe.

I've never used one word of profanity in front of my wife, or my daughter, or my granddaughter or anybody else's wife.

Pressure is a word that is misused in our vocabulary. When you start thinking of pressure, it's because you've started to think of failure.

I've got a portrait in the Smithsonian. Who ever thought that would happen?

Managing is like holding a dove in your hand. Squeeze too hard and you kill it; not hard enough and it flies away.

A second-guesser is one who doesn't know anything about the first guess, and he's one who needs 2 guesses to get one right.