You don't need Little League. You don't even need nine kids. Four is plenty-a pitcher, a batter, and a couple of shaggers. You can play ball all day long. My kids used to try to get me out there, but I'd just say, "Go play with your brothers." If kids want to do something, they'll do it. They don't need adults to do it for them.

Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.

Forecasting is very difficult, especially when it involves the future.

In theory, practice should work like theory. In practice, it doesn't.

Never answer anonymous letters.

I don't know if it's good for baseball, but it sure beats the hell out of rooming with Phil Rizzuto!

I can see how he (Sandy Koufax) won twenty-five games. What I don't understand is how he lost five.