We're so bad right now that for us back-to-back home runs means one today and another one tomorrow.

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.

It is a choice, and therefore within the province of economics.

There are two kinds of great power which can shake the earth: Mega earthquakes and big ideas!

As long as there are readers to be delighted with calumny there will be found reviewers to calumniate.

If anything can go wrong, it will.

All the wide world is but the husbandry of God for the development of the one fruit-man.

A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them.

We are hoping and praying that they will not be able to deny what the Lord has ordained.

There is freedom of speech in Iran, but there's no freedom after you've spoken.

In Reno, there is always a bull market, never a bear market, for the stocks and bonds of happiness.

When you're creative and you're going for the top, nothing really matters.