On Jose Gonzalez changing his name to Jose Uribe: 'He was definitely the player to be named later.'

It's a good thing I stayed in Cincinnati for four years -- It took me that long to learn how to spell it.

Well, there are three things that the average man thinks he can do better than anybody else. Build a fire, run a hotel and manage a baseball team.

You mix two jiggers of Scotch to one jigger of Metrecal. So far I've lost five pounds and my driver's license.

I bet you don't know what is the first thing Little Leaguers always ask me, 'How much money do you make?'

The trouble with having a wired jaw is that you can never tell when you're sleepy. You can't yawn.

The main quality a great third base coach must have is a fast runner.

I've had more numbers on my back than a bingo board.

Focus on making yourself better, not on thinking that you are better.

Life is a fight, but not everyone’s a fighter. Otherwise, bullies would be an endangered species.

The first follower is actually an underestimated form of leadership in itself. … The first follower is what transforms a lone nut into a leader.

The means of control that record labels had vis-à-vis distribution no longer exist.

Every composer understands and uses the system of notation differently, and that's what makes you appreciate the trouble they go through in doing so.

Be mindful at all times of the following: the nature of the whole universe, the nature of the part that is me, the relation of the one to the other, the one so vast, the other so small.

It's not the lack of ability or opportunity that holds you back; it is only a lack of confidence in yourself.

What if man were required to educate his children without the help of talking animals.

But now his dry and silent grieving for his lost wife must end, for there she stood, the fierce, recalcitrant, and fragile stranger, forever to be won again.

I tend to think that knowledge is preceded by power instead of the other way around.