All I ask is that you bust your heiny on that field.

They say some of my stars drink whiskey, but I have found that ones who drink milkshakes don't win many ball games.

The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided.

All right everyone, line up alphabetically according to your height.

Oldtimers, weekends, and airplane landings are alike. If you can walk away from them, they're successful.

Gettin' good players is easy. Gettin' 'em to play together is the hard part.

The secret of successful managing is to keep the five guys who hate you away from the four guys who haven't made up their minds.

See that fella over there? He's 20 years old. In 10 years, he's got a chance to be a star. Now that fella over there, he's 20 years old, too. In 10 years he's got a chance to be 30.

When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.

He'd (Yogi Berra) fall in a sewer and come up with a gold watch.

Now there's three things you can do in a baseball game: You can win or you can lose or it can rain.

My job is to inspire others to live full lives. Whether I do that through my writing or my actions are one in the same.

The massive debt we have racked up to finance our wasteful government is pulling down growth today. Gross debt over 90 percent of GDP weakens growth now. Not tomorrow - now.

I think the world is a place for oddballs and freaks. I'm only interested in oddballs and freaks as characters.

I'm never afraid to die. I think that's the best thing that can happen to somebody is they get to move on and do something better.

Sin ought to be something exquisite, my dear boy.

We did talk about cheese on our first date.

Since I stopped writing, I read more than ever. Other people's words, not my own - my words are gone.

I have, in some ways, saved characters that have been marginalized by society by playing them - and having them still have dignity and still survive, still get through it.

Religion was no cure for dysfunction.

I smile at her. "You're an angel." "Nah," she says. "I'm just a girl crazy in love.