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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.