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.

I’d rather you walk with the bases loaded.

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...

If you know how to cheat, start now.

I think my job as manager going into spring is basically going to be to work the entire Spring Training on learning how to win games in different kind of ways,

Frank was the most intense ballplayer I’ve ever seen. He played the game as hard as anybody. He never, ever gave up on an at-bat no matter what the score was. He’d get a big...

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

The key step for an infielder is the first one, to the left or right, but before the ball is hit.

It’s what you learn after you know it all that counts.

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.

This ain’t a football game, we do this every day.

In baseball, you can’t kill the clock. You’ve got to give the other man his chance. That’s why this is the greatest game.

Coaches are an integral part of any manager’s team, especially if they are good pinochle players.

I think the National League has better biorhythms in July.

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

I think there should be bad blood between all clubs.

I don’t think, in all the years I managed them, I ever spoke more than thirty words to Frank and Brooks Robinson.

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.

Every time I fail to smoke a cigarette between innings, the opposition will score.

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.

You win pennants in the off season when you build your teams with trades and free agents.

Don’t worry, the fans don’t start booing until July.

Momentum? Momentum is the next day’s starting pitcher.

We’re so bad right now that for us back-to-back home runs means one today and another one tomorrow.

No one’s gonna give a damn in July if you lost a game in March.

On my tombstone just write, ‘The sorest loser that ever lived.’

The only thing that matters is what happens on the little hump out in the middle of the field.

I never got many questions about my managing. I tried to get twenty-five guys who didn’t ask questions.

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

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