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

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

Good seasons start with good beginnings.

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.

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.

Just give me 25 guys on the last year of their contracts; I'll win a pennant every year.

Success isn't something that just happens - success is learned, success is practiced and then it is shared.

Interviewing friends is a tough one. Your duty to the interview must transcend your friendship. Occasionally you'll lose a friend.

I'd like to be a song and dance man.

The daily coverage of the Vietnamese battlefield helped convince the American public that the carnage was not worth the candle.

The first priority of humankind in this era is to establish an effective system of world law that will assure peace with justice among the peoples of the world.

Leaving San Francisco is like saying goodbye to an old sweetheart. You want to linger as long as possible.

Everybody knows that there's a liberal, that there's a heavy liberal persuasion among correspondents.