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

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

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.

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.

But that which fanaticism formerly promised to the elect, science now accomplishes for all men.

I loved music and art, combining the two seemed like a natural match.

The men who have done big things are those who were not afraid to attempt big things, who were not afraid to risk failure in order to gain success.

How was is that life never worked out the way it did in his head?

When everything is in its right place within us, we ourselves are in balance with the whole work of God.

Real knowledge never promoted either turbulence or unbelief; but its progress is the forerunner of liberality and enlightened toleration.

Have I today done anything to fulfill the purpose for which Thou didst cause me to be born?

There were all these rumors about me... so I went indoors. No one saw me for years. And since I wasnt around, people believed what they wanted.

I was successful with mediocre material because of a good recording voice that people really liked at that time.

There's one secret to hitting hard, and that is to completely dedicate your body. That's the difference between a man going forward and a man going backward, no matter how big he is.