You have to go broke three times to learn how to make a living.

You have to have a catcher because if you don't you're likely to have a lot of passed balls.

If you ran a delicatessen store, you would want to be the best delicatessen store, wouldn't you? Well, that's how I feel about the Yankees.

Finding good players is easy. Getting them to play as a team is another story.

I would not admire hitting against Ryne Duren, because if he ever hit you in the head you might be in the past tense.

The best thing wrong with Jack Fisher is nothing.

You gotta learn that if you don't get it by midnight, chances are you ain't gonna get it, and if you do, it ain't worth it.

Nobody knows this, but one of us has just been traded to Kansas City.

Don't cut off your nose yourself.

You gotta lose 'em some of the time. When you do, lose 'em right.

The best ballplayer's the one who doesn't think he made good. He keeps trying to convince you.

It's easy to get good players. Getting them to play together, that's the hard part.

I love signing autographs. I'll sign anything but veal cutlets. My ballpoint slips on veal cutlets.

You could look it up.

Never wear a backward baseball cap to an interview unless applying for the job of umpire.

The way our luck has been lately, our fellas have been getting hurt on their days off.

Managing is getting paid for home runs that someone else hits.

I was such a dangerous hitter I even got intentional walks during batting practice.

Play every game as if your job depended on it. It just might.