I don't want to get into autobiographies, I don't want to talk about myself.

That's all baseball is, is numbers; it's run by numbers, averages, percentage and odds. Managers make their decisions based on the numbers.

When I got out of baseball, I got all the way out. I might watch a World Series game or something.

I've always shied away from computers, the Internet and all that. I'm a bit more traditional, really - pick up a newspaper, pick up a phone.

Nobody picks on a strong man.

Because we do not know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. And yet everything happens only a certain number of times. And a very small number really.

Table your mistakes, learn from them, then move on.

It is a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead - and find no one there.

Every man has some reminiscences which he would not tell to everyone, but only to his friends.

What can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy?

Parents with meager means have the same aspirations for their children as other parents. Children from poor families have the same needs as other children.

Why will someone sell you a dollar for 50 cents? Because in the short run, people are irrational on both the optimistic and pessimistic side.

Madam, if your son were to come home and try to shirk duty, you ought to shut your door in his face and treat him as a renegade unworthy of your name or regard.