He (Mickey Mantle) should lead the league in everything. With his combination of speed and power he should win the triple batting crown every year. In fact, he should do anything he wants to do.

They say some of my stars drink whiskey, but I have found that ones who drink milkshakes don't win many ball games.

The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided.

All right everyone, line up alphabetically according to your height.

Oldtimers, weekends, and airplane landings are alike. If you can walk away from them, they're successful.

Gettin' good players is easy. Gettin' 'em to play together is the hard part.

The secret of successful managing is to keep the five guys who hate you away from the four guys who haven't made up their minds.

See that fella over there? He's 20 years old. In 10 years, he's got a chance to be a star. Now that fella over there, he's 20 years old, too. In 10 years he's got a chance to be 30.

When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.

He'd (Yogi Berra) fall in a sewer and come up with a gold watch.

Now there's three things you can do in a baseball game: You can win or you can lose or it can rain.

The only end of writing is to enable readers better to enjoy life, or better to endure it.

Tell me every terrible thing you ever did, and let me love you anyway.

People should not confuse opinions and rules with egocentric interests.

For those who understand, no explanation is needed. For those who do not understand, no explanation is possible.

The Universe may be stranger than we can imagine, but it's going to have a tough time outdoing Egan.

Words were medicine; they were magic and invisible. They came from nothing into sound and meaning. They were beyond price; they could neither be bought nor sold.

The most sympathetic of men never fully comprehend woman's concrete situation.

Replace "Have to" with "Want to."

My life's purpose is to write poetry - but behind the poetry must be the vision of a fresh revelation for men.