I never did say that you can't be a nice guy and win. I said that if I was playing third base and my mother rounded third with the winning run, I'd trip her up.

In the olden days, the umpire didn't have to take any courses in mind reading. The pitcher told you he was going to throw at you.

Baseball is like church. Many attend few understand.

I never questioned the integrity of an umpire. Their eyesight, yes.

To some it's a six-pack, to me it's a "support group". Salvation in a can!

Buy a steak for a player on another club after the game, but don't even speak to him on the field. Get out there and beat them to death.

Win any way as long as you can get away with it. Nice guys finish last.

Give me some scratching, diving, hungry ballplayers who come to kill you.

I believe in rules. Sure I do. If there weren't any rules, how could you break them?

You don't save a pitcher for tomorrow. Tomorrow it may rain.

Branch Rickey once said of me that I was a man with an infinite capacity for immediately making a bad thing worse.

Round still, but that's fine.Feeling good outside and in.Maybe I'm not thin, but skinny isn't perfect.The perfect size is happy.

The imitation of Christ is the joyful participation in the sorrows of the world.

Flying dreams mean that you're doing the right thing with your life.

Sometimes you're not sure about a player. Sometimes you doubt. Sometimes you have to guess. Sometimes you just know.

The thing that is important is the thing that is not seen.

I'm not Jack Nicholson. I'm not Brando. But I do mumble.

Knaves will thrive when honest plainness knows not how to live.

I just do not understand the stock market. It is like reading Russian.

Producers like to record all the drums first, then they do the bass, then all the guitars, so you're constantly moving from one song to another.

You can be anything you want to be, and you can start today, instead of waiting for some opportunity.