The great thing about baseball is when you're done, you'll only tell your grandchildren the good things. If they ask me about 1989, I'll tell them I had amnesia.

Success isn't something that just happens - success is learned, success is practiced and then it is shared.

Casey (Stengel) knew his baseball. He only made it look like he was fooling around. He knew every move that was ever invented and some that we haven't even caught on to yet.

People who live in the past generally are afraid to compete in the present. I've got my faults, but living in the past is not one of them. There's no future in it.

Me carrying a briefcase is like a hotdog wearing earrings.

Every 24 hours the world turns over on someone who was sitting on top of it.

Just give me 25 guys on the last year of their contracts; I'll win a pennant every year.

Baseball is a simple game. If you have good players and if you keep them in the right frame of mind then the manager is a success.

The players make the manager, it's never the other way.

Inner peace is not found in things like baseball and world championships. As long as I feel I've done the best job I possibly could, I'm satisfied.

They say the first World Series is the one you remember most. No, no no. I guarantee you don't remember that one because the fantasy world you always dreamed about is suddenly real.

The past is perception. The future is unknown. The only truth is the present.

It is obvious that you like to be in control of things. With this girl, you lose control. You despise that, especially since she is younger.- Maria Delgado

For my 20th birthday in March, I'll buy myself a present for doing my best. A one way ticket to Tokyo. All I need is my guitar and a pack of cigarettes.

I think you ought to be open-minded as to where life takes you.

It's a liberation to know that an act of spontaneous courage is yet possible in this world. An act that has something of unconditional beauty.

The school-boy doesnt force himself to learn his vocabularies and rules altogether at night, but knows that be must impress them again in the morning.

A soul, therefore, when deprived of the Word of God, is given up unarmed to the devil for destruction

As far as I'm concerned, the 20th century was performance-driven, but for some reason, the critics and historians didn't know how to integrate that.

If you have an opportunity to use your voice you should use it.

The world is crammed with delightful things