A manager's job is simple. For one hundred sixty-two games you try not to screw up all that smart stuff your organization did last December.

The key to winning baseball games is pitching, fundamentals, and three run homers.

Do the dull things right so the extraordinary things will not be required too often.

In baseball, you can't kill the clock. You've got to give the other man his chance. That's why this is the greatest game.

On my tombstone just write, 'The sorest loser that ever lived.'

My best game plan is to sit on the bench and call out specific instructions like 'C'mon Boog,' 'Get a hold of one, Frank,' or 'Let's go, Brooks.'

This ain't a football game, we do this every day.

I became an optimist when I discovered that I wasn't going to win any more games by being anything else.

Optimism is the cheerful frame of mind that enables a teakettle to sing, though in hot water up to its nose.

Nobody likes to hear it, because it's dull, but the reason you win or lose is darn near always the same - pitching.

The job of arguing with the umpire belongs to the manager, because it won't hurt the team if he gets thrown out of the game.

Where else, " I will say, "does an old turtle crossing the path Make all the difference in the world?

Stop selling your life for peanuts.

Get close to grass and you’ll see a star.

Animal rights are not a gift we give to animals. They are a birthright we have taken from them.

We must resist in-group thinking and practice seeing every soul as a brother or sister in a larger grouping of humans on earth.

Temptations come as a general rule when they are sought.

I don't like the glamour. I just like the game.

The advancement of freedom is not a matter of who wields political power over creative actions; rather, it depends upon the disassembling of such power.

No one would want to read a book in which I explain the science of cloning because it would be very dull and it would also make no sense.

You can only do so many things great, and you should cast aside everything else.