I believe in rules. Sure I do. If there weren't any rules, how could you break them?

In the olden days, the umpire didn't have to take any courses in mind reading. The pitcher told you he was going to throw at you.

Baseball is like church. Many attend few understand.

I never questioned the integrity of an umpire. Their eyesight, yes.

To some it's a six-pack, to me it's a "support group". Salvation in a can!

Buy a steak for a player on another club after the game, but don't even speak to him on the field. Get out there and beat them to death.

Win any way as long as you can get away with it. Nice guys finish last.

Give me some scratching, diving, hungry ballplayers who come to kill you.

I never did say that you can't be a nice guy and win. I said that if I was playing third base and my mother rounded third with the winning run, I'd trip her up.

You don't save a pitcher for tomorrow. Tomorrow it may rain.

Branch Rickey once said of me that I was a man with an infinite capacity for immediately making a bad thing worse.

Isn't your natural talent or an industry expert to succeed in ‪‎sales‬. It's how you explain your failures.

I grew up in Europe, where the history comes from.

Out of the attempt to harmonize our actual life with our aspirations, our experience with our faith, we make poetry, - or, it may be, religion.

Optimism boosts your energy and focuses your sights on reaching your goals, rather than wallowing in your setbacks.

It is the large brain capacity which allows man to live as a human being, enjoy taxes, canned salmon, television, and the atomic bomb.

In all highly civilised communities Pretence is prominent, and sooner or later invades the regions of Literature.

Perfect health means no weakness anywhere, that is no weakness should remain in the body, or in the mind, or in the relationship between the body and the mind.

Money can't buy happiness but it's more comfortable to cry in a Bugatti than on a bicycle.

I learned how to live on five and sometimes ten dollars a week.

It is dangerous and unbelievably fast and entirely different from the kind of track I am used to racing on