I only had a high school education and believe me, I had to cheat to get that.

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.

I'd still prefer to do five nights at a club than one night at Allstate Arena.

Martin Luther King did not stir his audience in 1963 by declaiming 'I have a nightmare'

In a perfect world, probably we'd never yell, we'd just be firm and dispassionate. But of course, everyone yells at their children.

If women ran Hollywood, The Hollywood Reporter would have a "Men in Entertainment" issue every year, and those jerks would have to write something.

What have I to do with plows? I cut another furrow than you see.

Better authentic mammon than a bogus god.

Memorization of variations could be even worse than playing in a tournament without looking in the books at all.

Of what import are brief, nameless lives . . . to Galactus?

Very depressed today. Unable to write a thing. Menacing gods. I feel outcast on a cold star, unable to feel anything but an awful helpless numbness.

Competition is a moral problem and an emotional tangle and a political conundrum.