What counts aren't the number of double plays, but the ones you should have had and missed.

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

If I managed the Cubs, I'd be an alcoholic.

The only thing bad about winning the pennant is that you have to manage the All-Star Game the next year. I'd rather go fishing for three years.

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).

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