He (Lyndon B. Johnson) wanted to see poverty, so he came to see my team (1964 New York Mets).

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.

A woman can never be late when she is meeting with a man. But a man can most certainly be late when he is meeting with a woman.

He cannot think. He can scarcely breathe. But he has no desire to either, he simply wants to keep kissing her.

Persistence wears down resistance.

Boone Pickens should be commended for his leadership on American energy security, and for bringing Ted Turner along on some sensible approaches to enhancing it.

Wine is a peep-hole on a man.

I can't do an accent unless I'm on the set. I forget how to do it until I'm on the set.

Unlike in my young days I'm not able to eat, drink and sleep tennis.

Female gossips are generally actuated by active ignorance.

Little said is soonest mended.

The beauty or ugliness of a character lay not only in its achievements, but in its aims and impulses; its true history lay, not among things done, but among things willed.