Bad ballplayers make good managers, not the other way around. All I can do is help them be as good as they are.

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

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

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.

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

My best game plan is to sit on the bench and call out specific instructions like 'C'mon Boog,' 'Get a hold of one, Frank,' or 'Let's go, Brooks.'

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

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

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

Nobody likes to hear it, because it's dull, but the reason you win or lose is darn near always the same - pitching.

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.

Imagination is the real magic that exists in this world. Look inwards, to see outwards. And capture it in writing.

Sometimes love cut so deep it caused terrible pain, or crossed paths with the joy of his present experiences.

Every revolution has its counterrevolution - that is a sign the revolution is for real.

Classes will dull your mind, destroy the potential for authentic creativity.

It takes me 10 minutes to get ready to go out, and that includes the shower.

Women suffer more from disappointment than men, because they have more of faith and are naturally more credulous.

All religious beliefs seem weird to people not brought up in them.

Debating is not an honest intellectual exercise. It's like a trial in which the goal is not to get to the truth but to win.

And I am in retirement from love.

For me a work of art must be an elevated interpretation of nature. The search for the ideal has been the purpose of my life. In landscape or seascape, I love above all the poetic motif.