Momentum? Momentum is the next day's starting pitcher.

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.

You know... sometimes we meet our destiny on the road we take to avoid it.

A person who knows nothing about literature may be an ignoramus, but many people don't mind being that.

Give us everything we ask for and suddenly it's too much.

Showing off is the fool's idea of glory.

The world had seen so many Ages: the Age of Enlightenment; of Reformation; of Reason. Now, at last, the Age of Desire. And after this, an end to Ages; an end, perhaps, to everything.

How do we accurately evoke land we love? What should we even call the world we walk and drive through-scenery, landscape?

I had done a lot of reading, relative for a kid, about World War Two, and I thought about Chamberlain a lot.

People waste more time waiting for someone to take charge of their lives than they do in any other pursuit.

We have people who are healers and those who posses a certain animal magnetism.

Among intellectual pursuits, one of the most useful is the recording of past events.