Am I a great manager? Huh. I was blessed to have a front office that found great talent, and then I was smart enough to stay the hell out of their way.

Success isn't something that just happens - success is learned, success is practiced and then it is shared.

Casey (Stengel) knew his baseball. He only made it look like he was fooling around. He knew every move that was ever invented and some that we haven't even caught on to yet.

People who live in the past generally are afraid to compete in the present. I've got my faults, but living in the past is not one of them. There's no future in it.

Me carrying a briefcase is like a hotdog wearing earrings.

Every 24 hours the world turns over on someone who was sitting on top of it.

Just give me 25 guys on the last year of their contracts; I'll win a pennant every year.

Baseball is a simple game. If you have good players and if you keep them in the right frame of mind then the manager is a success.

The players make the manager, it's never the other way.

Inner peace is not found in things like baseball and world championships. As long as I feel I've done the best job I possibly could, I'm satisfied.

They say the first World Series is the one you remember most. No, no no. I guarantee you don't remember that one because the fantasy world you always dreamed about is suddenly real.

Greatness can only be attained through time conversion.

Never feel like you need to visit him, ever?" "I see him every morning in the mirror. I think of him as the ghost version of me. And who needs to visit your own ghost?

If I have seen farther it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.

My dream is to save women from nature.

I've gotten like five laughs in movies, just off guy hugs.

Even post-WWII, nobody talked about the Holocaust. It wasn't until the '50s that people started talking about it.

If we never take a risk, we'll never know the parts of ourselves that would have emerged if we had.

Something rubs off from everything you read, observe, and tinker with.

The job of an actor is the same in all of them, really. I mean, you're just creating a character that you hope people will believe, so it doesn't make that much of a difference really.

Freedom is not a gift which can be enjoyed save by those shown themselves worthy of it.