The key to winning baseball games is pitching, fundamentals, and three run homers.

Pitching keeps you in the games. Home runs win the game.

You can't sit on a lead and run a few plays into the line and just kill the clock. You've got to throw the ball over the damn plate and give the other man his chance. That's why baseball is the greatest game of them all.

It'll be baseball, and it'll be guys that I know. I don't think I'd ever catch up with the major leagues again -not that I'm that old or that slow.

A manager's job is simple. For one hundred sixty-two games you try not to screw up all that smart stuff your organization did last December.

Nobody likes to hear it, because it's dull, but the reason you win or lose is darn near always the same - pitching.