The team that gets off to a good start wins pennants.

One small breeze doesn't make a wind storm.

In playing or managing, the game of ball is only fun for me when I'm out in front and winning. I don't give a hill of beans for the rest of the game.

One percent of ballplayers are leaders of men. The other 99 percent are followers of women.

There is but one game and that game is baseball.

Get in front of the ball, you won't get hurt. That's what you've got a chest for, young man.

Learn to know every man under you, get under his skin, know his faults. Then cater to him - with kindness or roughness as his case may demand.

Sportsmanship and easygoing methods are all right, but it is the prospect of a hot fight that brings out the crowds.

With my team I am an absolute czar. My men know it. I order plays and they obey. If the don't, I fine them.

You think the greatest thing in the whole world would be to become a baseball player - if best things already happened, what's next?

I think we can win it if my brain holds out.

I have no clue if it's true and I don't much want to look, but I bet a war happens inside the cocoon.

I may not be the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick the smartest people to do business with and size them up very fast.

A leader first tries to listen, then tries to understand, then creates a common vision and then together takes action for the realization.

If you uproot the idol and fail to plant the love of Christ in its place, the idol will grow back.

Tell him, on the contrary, that he needs, in the interest of his own happiness, to walk in the path of humility and self-control, and he will be indifferent, or even actively resentful.

You cannot find yourself by going into the past. You can find yourself by coming into the present.

I wear glasses. That's how you'll know me. I am the speccy one.... And I am proud.

A laboratory of natural history is a sanctuary where nothing profane should be tolerated. I feel less agony at improprieties in churches than in a scientific laboratory.

Your questions regarding that gentleman are very delicate, very subtle, very much like being smacked in the head with a mallet...it's a tuba among the flutes.

A hearty laugh gives one a dry cleaning, while a good cry is a wet wash.