All of us learn to write in the second grade. Most of us go on to greater things.

I think the National League has better biorhythms in July.

I’m an unemployed teacher right now and I’m looking for a place to teach.

There are no shortcuts in life – only those we imagine.

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

The will to succeed is important, but what’s more important is the will to prepare.

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

I’ve never predicted anything. All I have ever said is, that we will do the very best we can.

It’s so important to know where you 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.

I don’t have to wait until the next morning to regret something I did that was kinda dumb.

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

If I came in to recruit your son, I would tell you, your wife, and your son, that I will be the most demanding coach your son can play for.

The very first time you stood in the locker room to give a pep talk. That’s a special place, the locker room, for a coach to give a talk.

The only discipline that lasts is self-discipline.

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

You don’t play against opponents, you play against the game of basketball.

The key to a winning season is focusing on one opponent at a time. Winning one week at a time. Never look back and never look ahead.

The key is not the will to win… everybody has that. It is the will to prepare to win that is important.

A winning effort begins with preparation.

Winning is only half of it. Having fun is the other half.

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.

Walking has been ridiculous in college basketball the past 15 years.

Before you can win a game, you have to not lose it.

Well, I think it’s pretty much established that I just didn’t have any interest in coaching in the pros.

Failures are expected by losers, ignored by winners.

How do you win? By getting average players to play good and good players to play great. That’s how you win.

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

And I would be the first to admit that probably, in a lot of press conferences over the time that I have been in coaching, indulging my own sense of humor at press conferences has...

A life of frustration is inevitable for any coach whose main enjoyment is winning.

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

People who enjoy what they are doing invariably do it well.

You don’t know a ladder has splinters until you slide down it.

I think there should be bad blood between all clubs.

When my time on earth is gone, and my activities here are passed, I want they bury me upside down, and my critics can kiss my ass!

The thrill isn’t in the winning, it’s in the doing.

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.

I thought last week’s game was ugly and this was even uglier.

Two kinds of ballplayers aren’t worth a darn: One that never does what he’s told, and one who does nothin’ except what he’s told.

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

People change over the years, and that changes situations for good and for bad.

It’s not pleasant when you lose your whole football team.

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

It’s a shame anyone had to lose that. What a great rivalry.

Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.

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

As I’ve said, basketball has been, I think, a real cooperative venture. There have been a lot of people that have been involved in it: coaches, administrators – not recently – fans and nobody, nobody...

Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.

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.

Why talk now when so many things have been said without ever giving me a chance to talk?