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

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

The rules are changed now, there's not any way to build a team today. It's just how much money you want to spend. You could be the world champions and somebody else makes a key acquisition or two and you're through.

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

I'd rather go fishing for three years.

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

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.