He (Honus Wagner) was the nearest thing to a perfect player no matter where his manager chose to play him.

One small breeze doesn't make a wind storm.

In playing or managing, the game of ball is only fun for me when I'm out in front and winning. I don't give a hill of beans for the rest of the game.

One percent of ballplayers are leaders of men. The other 99 percent are followers of women.

There is but one game and that game is baseball.

Get in front of the ball, you won't get hurt. That's what you've got a chest for, young man.

Learn to know every man under you, get under his skin, know his faults. Then cater to him - with kindness or roughness as his case may demand.

Sportsmanship and easygoing methods are all right, but it is the prospect of a hot fight that brings out the crowds.

With my team I am an absolute czar. My men know it. I order plays and they obey. If the don't, I fine them.

You think the greatest thing in the whole world would be to become a baseball player - if best things already happened, what's next?

I think we can win it if my brain holds out.

I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.

If people could fall apart, why couldn't they fall back together?

Well I wouldn't say that I was in the 'great' class but I had a great time while I was trying to be great.

You have to do the work in your marriage, but it has to be laid on a strong foundation of love.

Notes are expensive... spend them wisely

By taking a business-like approach, the student-athletes and their parents will be in control of the outcome and that's how it should be.

Laughter is the best way to release tensions and fears.

I'm learning something all the time. That's the way I want it to go, and that's the way I'll go until I am no longer on this planet.

Love is friendship set on fire. Hate is friendship burned.

Fishing the small streams of New Hampshire is a pastime that combines hiking, map reading, and bushwhacking - plenty of it.