The Orioles made me. I didn't make the Orioles.

Bad ballplayers make good managers.

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.

What made me empathic was my depressions.

A manager should stay as far away as possible from his players. I don't know if I said ten words to Frank Robinson while he played for me.

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