The key to winning baseball games is pitching, fundamentals, and three run homers.

Leadership can be defined in one word - honesty. You must be honest with the players and honest with yourself.

I'd rather you walk with the bases loaded.

I became an optimist when I discovered that I wasn't going to win any more games by being anything else.

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.

On my tombstone just write, 'The sorest loser that ever lived.'

This ain't a football game, we do this every day.

Optimism is the cheerful frame of mind that enables a teakettle to sing, though in hot water up to its nose.

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.

Do the dull things right so the extraordinary things will not be required too often.

My whole philosophy is to broadcast the way a fan would broadcast.

You know they're not going to lose 162 consecutive games.

They discovered that 'boo' is pronounced the same in French as it is in English.

Oh, I get a little tired now and then, but knowing my lifestyle, that's only natural.

Not only do I like to go to bars because I like to drink, I do like to drink, but I go because who do you see there? Baseball fans.

I would always sing it (Take Me Out To The Ballgame) because I think it's the only song I knew the words to.

I've only been doing this fifty-four years. With a little experience, I might get better.

You know Alou's name spelled backwards is Uola? That sounds like a first name, Uola.