I became an optimist when I discovered that I wasn't going to win any more games by being anything else.

The key to winning baseball games is pitching, fundamentals, and three run homers.

Do the dull things right so the extraordinary things will not be required too often.

In baseball, you can't kill the clock. You've got to give the other man his chance. That's why this is the greatest game.

On my tombstone just write, 'The sorest loser that ever lived.'

My best game plan is to sit on the bench and call out specific instructions like 'C'mon Boog,' 'Get a hold of one, Frank,' or 'Let's go, Brooks.'

This ain't a football game, we do this every day.

Optimism is the cheerful frame of mind that enables a teakettle to sing, though in hot water up to its nose.

Nobody likes to hear it, because it's dull, but the reason you win or lose is darn near always the same - pitching.

The job of arguing with the umpire belongs to the manager, because it won't hurt the team if he gets thrown out of the game.

A manager's job is simple. For one hundred sixty-two games you try not to screw up all that smart stuff your organization did last December.

I do not think, Prospero, ' he said, 'that one should attribute a very high degree of reality to your house.

The marks we leave are too often scars.

I was chosen to speak due to my warm personality. . . . Look up warm and it means "not so hot."

No one really wants to admit they are lonely, and it is never really addressed very much between friends and family. But I have felt lonely many times in my life.

I think that the world should be full of cats and full of rain, that's all, just cats and rain, rain and cats, very nice, good night.

Drinking alcohol takes you into a lower state of mind. If you drink a lot of it, things get very fuzzy and they are not very sharp or defined. This brings you into a lower state of attention.

If you think a quaterhorse is that ride in front of Kmart.. You might be a rednneck

I guess that's one of the reasons that you do it - work all the time - because it's sort of a high to find something that really works.

All these rappers on stage and Martha Stewart has done the most jail time.

As long as we work on God's line, He will aid us. When we attempt to work on our own lines, He rebukes us with failure.