Good seasons start with good beginnings.

Mike Laga will make you forget about every power hitter that ever lived.

A baseball manager is a necessary evil.

My idea of managing is giving the ball to Tom Seaver and sitting down and watching him work.

If you have to choose between power and speed and it often turns out you have to make that choice, you've got to go for speed.

Explaining why he was forced to cut a utility player: You just got caught in a position where you have no position.

Me carrying a briefcase is like a hotdog wearing earrings.

I only had a high school education and believe me, I had to cheat to get that.

Players have two things to do. Play and keep their mouths shut.

You can be whoever you want to be, you just have to want it bad enough.

Managing is not running, hitting, or stealing. Managing is getting your players to put out one hundred percent year after year.

The trick is to realize that after giving your best, there's nothing more to give.

No manager ever won no ballgames.

Inner peace is not found in things like baseball and world championships. As long as I feel I've done the best job I possibly could, I'm satisfied.

If I ever find a pitcher who has heat, a good curve, and a slider, I might seriously consider marrying him, or at least proposing.

I don't want to embarrass any other catcher by comparing him to Johnny Bench.

The players make the manager, it's never the other way.

Every 24 hours the world turns over on someone who was sitting on top of it.

People who live in the past generally are afraid to compete in the present. I've got my faults, but living in the past is not one of them. There's no future in it.