The way we have been playing, I might tell my players not to cross the picket line (umpire strike of 1979).

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.

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.

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.

None of us have reached the peak of perfection, but it shouldn’t stop anyone from trying to make the climb.

New York is a granite beehive, where people jostle and whir like molecules in an overheated jar. Houston is six suburbs in search of a center.

Got tight on absinthe last night. Did knife tricks.

I love you. I love you, but I’m turning to my verses and my heart is closing like a fist.

I listen to John Mayer when I get ready. He's my calmer.

It is the high privilege and sacred duty of those now living to educate their successors and fit them, by intelligence and virtue, for the inheritance which awaits them.

Watch a cat when it enters a room for the first time. It searches and smells about, it is not quiet for a moment, it trusts nothing until it has examined and made acquaintance with everything.

I think one of the most valuable things Aerosmith has is the energy we produce when we all play together.

The sensual man conforms thoughts to things; the poet conforms things to his thoughts.

I have observed that baseball is not unlike war, and when you get right down to it, we batters are the heavy artillery.