The trick is to realize that after giving your best, there's nothing more to give... Win or lose the game is finished. It's over. It's time to forget and prepare for the next one.

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.

Be realistic with your expectations. I'd really like to cuddle a unicorn, but it aint going to happen.

I have a great deal of respect for any women that will enter the world of little boys of sports.

I'll be singing with The Blind Boys of Alabama, which is a great joy to me. I've done some work with them before, and they truly are amazing.

If you wave a flag, make it an American Flag.

I can like men who are a little light in the loafers.

The men liked to put me down as the best woman painter. I think I'm one of the best painters.

I never took the fame too seriously. It was a great period in my life, but it doesn't define me.

I grew up in a musical family, but nobody was a professional musician.

Most characters are composed of snippets here and there of people I've known, and all rolled into the character I've created. They do become like their own people.

There are kids out there who'd chop their legs off to play football for Brighton