We need just two players to be a contender. Babe Ruth and Sandy Koufax.

I'd rather go fishing for three years.

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.

You sweat out the free agent thing in November, then you make the trades in December. Then you struggle to sign the guys left in January, and in February I get down to sewing all the new numbers on the uniforms.

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

A slick way to outfigure a person is to get him figuring you figure he's figuring you're figuring he'll figure you aren't really figuring what you want him to figure you figure.

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