I was fortunate enough to coach the US Olympic team in Australia. The parks were full at all times. How can they take away a sport like that?

The saddest day of the year is the day baseball season ends.

I've had heroes in my life - Joe DiMaggio, Babe Ruth.

I didn't even graduate from high school. I've never told anybody that before. I got my degree later, when I was in the army.

Listen, if you start worrying about the people in the stands, before too long you're up in the stands with them.

I started in the lowest league in baseball, and I worked my way all the way up to Triple A and then to the big leagues. I never reached the level that I thought I would reach as a player. But that's the way it goes. So then I started from the bottom as a manager, and I worked my way up to managing the Dodgers for 20 years.

Bruce Benedict is so slow he'd finish third in a race with a pregnant woman.