If I managed the Cubs, I'd be an alcoholic.

I'm not buddy-buddy with the players. If they need a buddy, let them buy a dog.

Baseball has been good to me since I quit trying to play it.

A slick way to outfigure a person is to get him figuring you figure he's figuring you're figuring he'll figure you aren't really figuring what you want him to figure you figure.

Some people asked me if I would be interested in managing the A's. I said a definite no thank you. At night, that place is a graveyard with lights.

If you don't have outstanding relief pitching, you might as well piss on the fire and call the dogs.

We need three kinds of pitching: left-handed, right-handed and relief.

The only thing bad about winning the pennant is that you have to manage the All-Star Game the next year. I'd rather go fishing for three years.

I'd rather go fishing for three years.

We need just two players to be a contender. Babe Ruth and Sandy Koufax.

For being book smart, I thought he (A. Barlett Giamatti) had a lot of street smarts, which is tough to find sometimes.

Even the broken will fight

People fail to love unconditionally because as soon as their perception of you changes so does their behavior.

An army is a nation within a nation, it is one of the vices of courage.

All Australians are an uneducated and unruly mob.

Pick a movement, pick a revolution and join it.

Athletes today get into a single-minded, one sport routine. I can't stand it.

God, I hope he dies the night before one of his kids get married.

The human heart is a factory of idols...Everyon e of us is, from his mother's womb, expert in inventing idols.

My mother always told me that any talent is a gift of God and I always believed it. If I quit, I would just live in front of the television and get fat and die pretty soon.

You must pass your days in song. Let your whole life be a song.