“He can run anytime he wants. I’m giving him the red light.”

I’m in no condition to drive, wait! I shouldn’t listen to myself, I’m drunk!

You can have everything you want as long as you don’t want it badly enough.

Little League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets.

Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical.

Love is the most important thing in the world, but baseball is pretty good, too.

So I’m ugly. So what? I never saw anyone hit with his face.

It ain’t over till it’s over

You can get old pretty young if you don’t take care of yourself.

We made too many wrong mistakes.

Nobody goes to that restaurant anymore because it’s too crowded.

The towels were so thick there I could hardly close my suitcase.

If you ask me anything I don’t know, I’m not going to answer.

I’d give my right arm to be ambidextrous.

In baseball, you don’t know nothing.

You can’t win all the time. There are guys out there who are better than you.

A nickel ain’t worth a dime anymore.

commenting on baseball players who test positive for steroids: It?s an announced test, so you not only failed the steroid test, you failed the IQ test.

Don’t worry about your individual numbers. Worry about the team. If the team is successful, each of you will be successful, too.

Free agency screws everybody’s allegiances up. Whether it be football, baseball, hockey, basketball, whatever it may be. It’s really hard.

When I won the World Championship in ’72, the United States had an image of, you know, a football country, baseball country, but nobody thought of it as an intellectual country.

I would rather beat the Yankees regularly than pitch a no hit game.

How can you not be romantic about baseball?

You can talk about teamwork on a baseball team, but I’ll tell you, it takes teamwork when you have 2,900 men stationed on the U.S.S. Alabama in the South Pacific.

So you have to be more mentally focused in baseball.