Bad ballplayers make good managers, not the other way around. All I can do is help them be as good as they are.

The job of arguing with the umpire belongs to the manager, because it won't hurt the team if he gets thrown out of the game.

Bad ballplayers make good managers.

They would have been short of help. The managers, we think a lot of them. We couldn't just leave them.

People always make a lot about how I don't carry grudges. That's my religious upbringing. I went nine years without missing Sunday school. Lutheran. I can't live with hatred inside of me. That's what I learned. I ain't scared of dying, either.

I became an optimist when I discovered that I wasn't going to win any more games by being anything else.