Desire and determination must overcome disappointment.

Look at misfortune the same way you look at success - Don't Panic! Do you best and forget the consequences.

More than anyone else, he's (Hank Aaron) made me wish I wasn't a manager.

Fans tend to get too excited by streaks of either kind and I think the press does too. There should be a happy medium.

It's not the winter that bothers me - it's the summers.

Perhaps the truest axiom in baseball is that the toughest thing to do is repeat.

Do your best and forget the consequences.

I'd rather win two or three, lose one, win two or three more. I'm a great believer in things evening out. If you win a whole bunch in a row, somewhere along the line you're going to lose some, too.

I've won plenty of games by knowing when to take out my pitcher; whom to replace him with; or how to place my infield or outfield to defend properly against the opposing hitter.

The toughest thing about managing is knowing your personnel and what it can give you under all conditions.

I always liked Casey Stengel as a manager because he seemed to have a grasp of so many things.

...our students should be playing Beethoven with research processes, but instead we are hearing Mary Had a Little Lamb.

That is what leadership is all about: staking your ground ahead of where opinion is and convincing people, not simply following the popular opinion of the moment.

Nothing will kill what you've been called to do more than comparing yourself to someone else.

The best use one can make of his mind is to distrust it.

I couldn't tell wether the hole that opened up inside me was from missing you or from the change of season

Unfortunately in life, justice is not always achieved.

How do you decisions change if retirement is not an option?

It's not like I idolize this one guy Machiavelli. I idolize that type of thinking where you do whatever's gonna make you achieve your goal.

A clear idea about the nature of quality in art will always result in inferior art tailored to it.