Leadership can be defined in one word - honesty. You must be honest with the players and honest with yourself.

The key to winning baseball games is pitching, fundamentals, and three run homers.

Do the dull things right so the extraordinary things will not be required too often.

In baseball, you can't kill the clock. You've got to give the other man his chance. That's why this is the greatest game.

On my tombstone just write, 'The sorest loser that ever lived.'

My best game plan is to sit on the bench and call out specific instructions like 'C'mon Boog,' 'Get a hold of one, Frank,' or 'Let's go, Brooks.'

This ain't a football game, we do this every day.

I became an optimist when I discovered that I wasn't going to win any more games by being anything else.

Optimism is the cheerful frame of mind that enables a teakettle to sing, though in hot water up to its nose.

Nobody likes to hear it, because it's dull, but the reason you win or lose is darn near always the same - pitching.

The job of arguing with the umpire belongs to the manager, because it won't hurt the team if he gets thrown out of the game.

The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others.

I guess I just don't have the killer instinct that I think makes a great political cartoonist.

It gives me vertigo to watch TV dramas.

I'm just saying stupid, funny things when I'm hanging out on the TV show. When I'm making music I'm in a completely different zone.

I was supposed to be in the NBA. I was supposed to travel the world and make the world a better place.

A song is like a saddle: you ride it for a while, and if it's the right kind of song you can sing it for the rest of your life.

You must converse much with the field and the woods if you would imbibe such health into your mind and spirit as you covet for your body

Keep your blood clean, your body lean, and your mind sharp.

I don't want to die. Please don't let me die.

The best principals are not heroes; they are hero makers.