Some people asked me if I would be interested in managing the A's. I said a definite no thank you. At night, that place is a graveyard with lights.

I'm not buddy-buddy with the players. If they need a buddy, let them buy a dog.

Some people asked me if I would be interested in managing the A's. I said a definite no thank you. At night, that place is a graveyard with lights.

For being book smart, I thought he (A. Barlett Giamatti) had a lot of street smarts, which is tough to find sometimes.

We need three kinds of pitching: left-handed, right-handed and relief.

The way we have been playing, I might tell my players not to cross the picket line (umpire strike of 1979).

If you don't have outstanding relief pitching, you might as well piss on the fire and call the dogs.