I was not successful as a ball player, as it was a game of skill.

They say some of my stars drink whiskey, but I have found that ones who drink milkshakes don't win many ball games.

The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided.

All right everyone, line up alphabetically according to your height.

Oldtimers, weekends, and airplane landings are alike. If you can walk away from them, they're successful.

Gettin' good players is easy. Gettin' 'em to play together is the hard part.

The secret of successful managing is to keep the five guys who hate you away from the four guys who haven't made up their minds.

See that fella over there? He's 20 years old. In 10 years, he's got a chance to be a star. Now that fella over there, he's 20 years old, too. In 10 years he's got a chance to be 30.

When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.

He'd (Yogi Berra) fall in a sewer and come up with a gold watch.

Now there's three things you can do in a baseball game: You can win or you can lose or it can rain.

When we oppose oppression, we lift our hands from the collective reins that empower such oppression.

It is not necessary to conceal anything from a public insensible to contradiction and narcotized by technological diversions.

Desecration is the smile on my face.

For me, the fiction writer's job is to take the small, stupid process of learning to use an iPhone - and suddenly you're the guy who's asking your daughter, "When I go on Facebook, can it see me?"

I know I have to run 20 more minutes if I eat ice cream. Basically, I eat everything, but I just do more training.

In England, justice is open to all - like the Ritz Hotel.

The most beautiful springs are those that come after the most horrible winters!

I think it's a problem when journalists have the title of their article before they do the interview, because it biases the way they conduct it.

I thank God for happiness and sadnessIf you are never sad you will never know how good happiness is

In the ten years since I had run away from home...I had gone through more strange experiences than the average person crowds into a whole lifetime.