If you don't win, you're going to be fired. If you do win, you've only put off the day you're going to be fired.

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?

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.

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

The human self and the God self are both creations of molecules in the human brain.

The modern rise of Alzheimer's Disease in the twentieth century is not a sign of failure. It's a sign of success. Success in living long enough to see that disease expressed.

I'm not going to change the way people think about me, but I can say you know what? I'm not going to carry that in my backpack.

Every talent is unearned, however, and with it comes a solemn obligation to use it as fully and as wisely as possible.

We are generalists. You can't draw neat lines around planet-wide problems. Planetology is a cut-and-fit science.

Literature is breathing. I teach literature the way someone else might teach First Aid.

Our show doesn't rely on the typical whistles and bells, and smoke and mirrors. It relies mostly on the music.

The art world has become the R&D department for so much fashion and music, so knock-offs are getting better and better.

Do not become a disciple of one who praises himself, in case you learn pride instead of humility.

We should remember it wasn't so long ago that confidence in New York was in short supply.