If you lose you're going to be fired and if you win you only put off the day you're going to be fired.

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

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.

Just let go - and fall like a little waterfall

You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.

Every bullet fired from the barrel of a police pistol was my bullet. If you call that murder, then I am the murderer.

I think of a man and I take away reason and accountability.

We all have different ways to do things.

The main thing about directing is: photograph the people's eyes.

You can't be afraid. You can be sad if you like. You can be angry. But it's the fear that'll freeze you in place.

Texas is a fine place for men and dogs, but hell on women and horses.

There's an old saying about truth setting you free. Don't buy it. Sometimes the truth slams the cell door shut and throws a thousand bolts.

The major producer of the social chaos, the indeterminacy of thought and values that rational knowledge is supposed to eliminate, is none other than science itself.