I don't think, in all the years I managed them, I ever spoke more than thirty words to Frank and Brooks Robinson.

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.

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

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.

Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity.

In few men is it part of nature to respect a friend's prosperity without begrudging him.

Worlds self made are so full of monsters and demons.

Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.

The reality is that we are going to have problems with water in this century. And the fact that we are going to have problems with fossil fuel is a given.

Success is not so much what we have as it is what we are.

You don't have a work brain and a home brain. You have a single brain, one you carry with you wherever you go. Whatever affects you in one place is fully capable of affecting you at the other.

The rich do get richer - meaning that those who appreciate what they have will get more. Be grateful everyday.

And then their voices stopped and their souls stood still and they ceased being who they had been. Because who they were had always been determined by him.

Nobody likes having salt rubbed into their wounds, even if it is the salt of the earth.