“I’m delighted. I don’t know of anybody who had a statue built of them while they were living. It’s a great feeling.”

They should bounce around a little, show some life and zip.

Everybody says we hated the Yankees. We didn’t hate the Yankees. We just hated the way they beat us.

The youngsters coming up now just go through the motions necessary to make the play.

Managing can be more discouraging than playing, especially when you’re losing because when you’re a player, there are at least individual goals you can shoot for.

The manager is by himself. He can’t mingle with his players. I enjoyed my players.

If you don’t love what you’re doing and you can’t give it your best, get out of it. Life is too short.

But I could not socialize with them so I spent a lot of time alone in my hotel room. Those four walls kind of close in on you.

Do what you love to do and give it your very best. Whether it’s business or baseball, or the theater, or any field.

You’ll be an old man before you know it.

When you’re a manager all the worries of the team become your worries.

It adds a little action and gives the fans something to look at rather than the monotonous routine, no matter how perfectly the play is made.

I’m not trying to keep anybody happy.

Rock Band never got anybody a date. Never.

The more you look down on others, the less ANYBODY will look up to you.

I don’t spend a lot of time with anybody.

That’s why my place in the all-time rankings means so very little to me, because I know I won’t be anybody’s number one, and it’s that same old thing: if you’re not number one, then what does it really matter?

No. I don’t want to need anybody. I want someone to need me … I want someone to need me.

Almost anybody would rather be known for expert shoe-tying than for kicking the cat.” She always tells whiners how charming they are–bullies how brave–bad sports how good–sneaks how honest!

I was born in Long Branch, New Jersey, and no one had ever taught anybody that young, back in those days.