I always tried to do the best. I knew I couldn't always be the best, but I tried to be.

Close don't count in baseball. Close only counts in horseshoes and grenades.

Be anything you want to be, but don't be dull.

It's nice to come into a town and be referred to as the manager of the Cleveland Indians instead of as the first black manager.

Whether you're trying to excel in athletics or in any other field, always practice. Look, listen, learn - and practice, practice, practice. There is no substitute for work, no shortcut to the top.

I don't see why you reporters keep confusing Brooks (Robinson) and me. Can't you see that we wear different numbers.

If the guys on the bench were as good as the guys you have out there, they'd be out there in first place.

Managers don't have as much leverage as they used to have. We can't really be the boss.

I had no trouble communicating, the player's just didn't like what I had to say.

The fan is the one who suffers. He cheers a guy to a .350 season then watches that player sign with another team. When you destroy fan loyalties, you destroy everything.

You have to have a short memory as a closer.

If not us, then who?If not now, then when?

There are many unspeakable words, forgotten, or forbidden.Great thanks to the poets who make them all become reachable.

Without form, the sensitiveness vanishes.

In the end, they wanted security more than they wanted freedom.

Resolve never to quit, never to give up, no matter what the situation.

There is nothing that God hath established in a constant course of nature, and which therefore is done every day, but would seem a Miracle, and exercise our admiration, if it were done but once.

I don't have time to be classified as difficult, and I don't have time to care.

Love, I've come to understand, is more than three words mumbled before bedtime.

Given the large uncertainties at each major step of the case for reliance on a carbon tax, economists should reconsider their current support for such a policy.

Don't forget! That is to say: remember - because remembering is so much more a psychotic activity than forgetting.