If I had to pick the greatest team player in baseball today-and I have some of the greats on my own club-I would have to pick Pie Traynor.

One small breeze doesn't make a wind storm.

In playing or managing, the game of ball is only fun for me when I'm out in front and winning. I don't give a hill of beans for the rest of the game.

One percent of ballplayers are leaders of men. The other 99 percent are followers of women.

There is but one game and that game is baseball.

Get in front of the ball, you won't get hurt. That's what you've got a chest for, young man.

Learn to know every man under you, get under his skin, know his faults. Then cater to him - with kindness or roughness as his case may demand.

Sportsmanship and easygoing methods are all right, but it is the prospect of a hot fight that brings out the crowds.

With my team I am an absolute czar. My men know it. I order plays and they obey. If the don't, I fine them.

You think the greatest thing in the whole world would be to become a baseball player - if best things already happened, what's next?

I think we can win it if my brain holds out.

In the simple moral maxim the Marine Corps teaches — do the right thing, for the right reason — no exception exists that says: unless there's criticism or risk. Damn the consequences.

The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win, and their participants know it.

Name the greatest of all inventors: Accident.

Israel is a fulfilled dream. Nothing that exists here existed here a hundred years ago.

One of my great all-time loves in cinema, and I've seen it three times, is Bondarchuk's 'War and Peace.' Not a lot of people may have seen that film. It was made during the Soviet era.

If you whoop and holler all the time, the players just get used to it.

I'd rather die terrified than live forever.

As I've often said, you can shop online and find whatever you're looking for, but bookstores are where you find what you weren't looking for.

I'm truly sorry man's dominion has broken Nature's social union.

I hope that someday we will find evidence that there is intelligent life among humans on this planet.