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.

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.

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.

The boy's (Hack Wilson) got talent and desire, but he ain't got no neck.

A person with a victim complex is unable to set goals and achieve them independently

I know some words floated through my ears, but my mind refused to absorb their meaning. I just shook my head slowly as the wall of pain washed over me, leaving me submerged and broken in the flood.

Almost more than talent you need tenacity, and an infinite capacity for rejection, if you are to succeed.

Be equal to your talent, not your age. At times let the gap between them be embarrassing.

You cannot, in human experience, rush into the light. You have to go through the twilight into the broadening day before the noon comes and the full sun is upon the landscape.

I work really hard on the shows and I think the shows speak for themselves. I don't want to construct the show to prove something.

The burned hand teaches best.

A character to me can't be contrived. I don't like to contrive characters. They have to have an element of truth.

Eventually, everyone said, Why don't you direct? It would save time. And that's how it started.

I'm very much in favor of focused responsibility, and so in the main areas that I'm worried about, I try to have a single person who is basically the key person in that area.