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.

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.

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

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.

Evolution on the large scale unfolds, like much of human history, as a succession of dynasties.

There are things I cannot say.

Nature listening stood, whilst Shakespeare play'd And wonder'd at the work herself had made.

When we lack integrity, we use power to control. When we lead with integrity, we use power to bless.

We could never know who we truly were until we heard the whispers of the stars.

Do you know what will soon be the ultimate in truth?

Ideas are like frog eggs: you've got to lay a thousand to hatch one.

Praising God is one of the highest and purest acts of religion. In prayer we act like men; in praise we act like angels.

We learn to lie by believing words rather than experience.

Next to the pleasure of finding a new mistress is that of being rid of an old one.