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.

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

Baseball has been good to me since I quit trying to play it.

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

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.

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

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

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.

I'd rather go fishing for three years.

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

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

There is no ending to the number of products you can produce with your time if well invested.

...your tranquil yes to the changing over into the formless void of the unlimited.

There comes a time that every obstacle may stand against you

No time for monsters.

If I may venture to be frank I would say about myself that I was every inch a gentleman.

God is the celebrity author of the world's best seller. We have made god into the biggest celebrity of all, to contain our own emptiness.

Marriage is not an institution, it is an intuition.

Nobody is lost until somebody has given up.

Gently resist the temptation to chase your dreams into the world; pursue them in your heart until they disappear into the Self, and leave them there.

It's one of the greatest comforts of working in ministry: the unspoken certitude that your spouse did not marry you for your money.