We need just two players to be a contender. Babe Ruth and Sandy Koufax.

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.

For being book smart, I thought he (A. Barlett Giamatti) had a lot of street smarts, which is tough to find sometimes.

I remember...watching that separation of sea and sky...and for the first time I realize that none of us are seeing the same thing. That all our horizons end in different places.

Do not turn your face from others with pride, nor walk arrogantly on earth. Verily the Almighty does not like those who are arrogant and boastful.

For balance to be restored, lessons must be learned

Two of the people I don't care about: fans or media.

For a host, above all, must be kind to his guests.

Art should never try to be popular.

To see things differently requires you to be wired a little differently.

I was the Jane Roe of Roe vs. Wade, but Jane Roe has been laid to rest.

Things today have become too big, too centralized, and too disassociated to be in relationship to each other.

If you have breakouts, it can be really healing, it's a little bit stinky, but if you're not sleeping over at your boyfriend's, it's really effective