Coaches are an integral part of any manager's team, especially if they are good pinochle players.

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.

A baby is a smiling, dancing moon in our hands just waiting to touch our hearts.

I get into beatific cornucopia when I delve into books, coffee, and wanderings!

Jesus was victorious not because he never flinched, talked back, or questioned, but having flinched, talked back, and questioned, he remained faithful.

Michael Lewis has the amazing ability to take complex formulas and concepts and turn them into page-turners.

Cuz phony faggots I froze, it's a fact, I flip fast on foes with fabulous fantastic flows.

What is a weed? I have heard it said that there are sixty definitions. For me, a weed is a plant out of place.

There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.

I've grown tired of traveling alone, won't you ride with me?

The ultimate gift of conscious life is a sense of the mystery that encompasses it.

It would be hard to name a more certain sign of poor self-esteem than the need to perceive some other group as inferior.