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

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

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.

But you are too lovely even to care to be kind as others are.

I feel there are two people inside me-me and my intuition. If I go against her she'll screw me every time and if I follow her we get along quite nicely.

Once we were Programmers. Maybe our last best hope is a movie.

There's something vile (and all the more vile because ridiculous) in the tendency of feeble men to make universal tragedies out of the sad comedies of their private woes.

The human heart finds nowhere shelter but in human kind.

I like the Western genre, I think it's uniquely American.

The biggest sin in the world would be if I lost my love for the ocean.

Human language can but imperfectly describe God's ways.

Begin nothing without considering what the end may be.

In the space between our bodies there is a cup holder filled with pennies a distance which can often take years to cross.