On my tombstone just write, 'The sorest loser that ever lived.'

The key to winning baseball games is pitching, fundamentals, and three run homers.

Do the dull things right so the extraordinary things will not be required too often.

In baseball, you can't kill the clock. You've got to give the other man his chance. That's why this is the greatest game.

My best game plan is to sit on the bench and call out specific instructions like 'C'mon Boog,' 'Get a hold of one, Frank,' or 'Let's go, Brooks.'

This ain't a football game, we do this every day.

I became an optimist when I discovered that I wasn't going to win any more games by being anything else.

Optimism is the cheerful frame of mind that enables a teakettle to sing, though in hot water up to its nose.

Nobody likes to hear it, because it's dull, but the reason you win or lose is darn near always the same - pitching.

The job of arguing with the umpire belongs to the manager, because it won't hurt the team if he gets thrown out of the game.

A manager's job is simple. For one hundred sixty-two games you try not to screw up all that smart stuff your organization did last December.

The only way I survive is to never stop moving. I make sure I'm always surrounded by others, so I won't have time to think and end up imploding like a dying star.

Every man's life is a fairy-tale written by God's fingers.

I admire how she protects her energy and understands her limitations.

I think team sports probably teach you more about giving - about being unselfish and being flexible.

Even if a government can be constitutional without being democratic, it cannot be democratic without being constitutional.

Exactly as we might ask God, and do ask God, to change our fate. The difference is that in the story the writer actually replies and in the end even changes his mind.

If you are in front of a wall that you cannot get past, would you just keep banging your head into the wall?... No, you would find a new wall.

Many shall be restored that now are fallen and many shall fall that now are in honor.

Standing up for what you believe in comes at a price but backing down exacts a toll that your soul never stops paying

Reason! how many eyes hast thou to see evils, and how dim, nay, blind, thou art in preventing them.