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 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.

A manager's job is simple. For one hundred sixty-two games you try not to screw up all that smart stuff your organization did last December.

Science is the desperate effort to catch up with the 13.8 billion year-old facts (give or take an eon or two).

Minutes are sometimes like eternities if they are let go.

I know my rights.""And I know you're wrong.

If the ultimate, the hardest, cannot be asked of me; if my fellows hesitate to ask it and turn to someone else, then I know nothing of Calvary love.

Character is that sum total of moments we can't explain.

I don't think films about elderly people have been made very much.

What is one to think of those fools who tell one that the artist is always subordinate to nature? Art is a harmony parallel with nature.

It is interesting to observe how real the object remains, in spite of all abstractions.

Money won't buy you happiness, but it'll pay for the search

That which you do not wish for yourself, do not impose on others.