Win any way as long as you can get away with it. Nice guys finish last.

In the olden days, the umpire didn't have to take any courses in mind reading. The pitcher told you he was going to throw at you.

Baseball is like church. Many attend few understand.

I never questioned the integrity of an umpire. Their eyesight, yes.

To some it's a six-pack, to me it's a "support group". Salvation in a can!

Buy a steak for a player on another club after the game, but don't even speak to him on the field. Get out there and beat them to death.

Give me some scratching, diving, hungry ballplayers who come to kill you.

I believe in rules. Sure I do. If there weren't any rules, how could you break them?

I never did say that you can't be a nice guy and win. I said that if I was playing third base and my mother rounded third with the winning run, I'd trip her up.

You don't save a pitcher for tomorrow. Tomorrow it may rain.

Branch Rickey once said of me that I was a man with an infinite capacity for immediately making a bad thing worse.

The way you spend your time daily determines how effective your life will be

Your wish has be granted by God. Time will make it manifest.

Mother said we had reached the Age of Reason and had to be good now. We must have because we wanted Willy Starr instead.

Great deeds begin in the mind, extraordinary deeds begin in the heart, and remarkable deeds begin in the soul.

Nowadays, I dont have expectations, and this way she beats them all.

The ideal man is his own best friend and takes delight in privacy.

When in still air and still in summertime A leaf has had enough of this, it seems To make up its mind to go; fine as a sage Its drifting in detachment down the road.

The fact that a man is to vote forces him to think.

Sometimes I see really skinny girls. They may look great, but...they're not happy. Have a cupcake.

So long as one person remembers you, you'll never really be dead.