I don't believe a manager ever won a pennant. Casey Stengel won all those pennants with the Yankees. How many did he win with the Boston Braves and Mets?

Success isn't something that just happens - success is learned, success is practiced and then it is shared.

Casey (Stengel) knew his baseball. He only made it look like he was fooling around. He knew every move that was ever invented and some that we haven't even caught on to yet.

People who live in the past generally are afraid to compete in the present. I've got my faults, but living in the past is not one of them. There's no future in it.

Me carrying a briefcase is like a hotdog wearing earrings.

Every 24 hours the world turns over on someone who was sitting on top of it.

Just give me 25 guys on the last year of their contracts; I'll win a pennant every year.

Baseball is a simple game. If you have good players and if you keep them in the right frame of mind then the manager is a success.

The players make the manager, it's never the other way.

Inner peace is not found in things like baseball and world championships. As long as I feel I've done the best job I possibly could, I'm satisfied.

They say the first World Series is the one you remember most. No, no no. I guarantee you don't remember that one because the fantasy world you always dreamed about is suddenly real.

Faith is that quality or power by which the things desired become the things possessed.

I'm not trying to convince anybody of anything. I just want (the audience) to have an experience that moves them.

A man with so large a brain must have something in it.

Because I don't think it's true. I don't think corruption is endemic to the process in Annapolis at all. It's the exception, not the rule.

I seek refuge in Thee from every hope which would distract me.

Most violence is intra-racial, and much of the violence in African-American communities is a function of drug availability, joblessness and poverty.

My mom played every sport possible. My dad is 'extremely' competitive. You can't even play Ping-Pong with him.

Wine in excess keeps neither secrets nor promises.

If I lose show business - I'll really be an orphan!

Be your own teacher. Let life write your textbook.