Most ball games are lost, not won.

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.

I would have had to kill him, and Death, you know, keeps secrets better even than a guilty Roman.

Fear is a faint heart.

For me, California is all about rest, relaxation, space.

High fortune makes both our virtues and vices stand out as objects that are brought clearly to view by the light.

I suppose I'm a lapsed Catholic. You would consider me an atheist or agnostic.

People talk a lot about the Jackson's but then when you think about it, there is quite a lot to talk about.

I spent a lot of time not in school, so I didn't have deep relationships with kids my own age.

We need narrative; it feeds us in a particular way, and deconstructing it completely before you've actually experienced it, I think it leaves us unfed.

Rigorous authority and justice are the kindness of kings.

The terrorists want civil war. Al-Qaida is attacking Shiites. The Shiite militias are taking revenge on the Sunnis. And the Sunnis are become more extremist, with some joining al-Qaida.