“I’m not saying that they were Einsteins; they were marginal students. But every ballplayer whoever touched me has moved up his station in life. And the players moved up my station.”

Keep it simple, when you get too complex you forget the obvious.

The only mystery in life is why the kamikaze pilots wore helmets.

I believe in a business boarding up early. If you make a mistake, you put the boards in the window of the store and say, “Hey, I made a mistake.

All love affairs end. Eventually the girl is gonna put curlers in her hair.

There’s no one who’s dropped on top of the mountain. You’ve got to work your way to the top.

When a guy takes off his coat, he’s not going to fight. When a guy takes off his wristwatch, watch out!

So they should make a great effort, a Mount Everest type effort, to live up to their potential. Success is a communal type thing.

I want my team to have my personality: surly, obnoxious, and arrogant.

I just can’t recruit where there’s grass around.

They call me eccentric. They used to call me nuts. I haven’t changed.

Dean Meminger was quicker than 11:15 Mass at a seaside resort.

It’s a profession in which, the longer you stay, the closer you are to being fired.

Butch, you come from DeWitt Clinton. There are five thousand brothers in that school.

A box score does not properly represent the most important thing – team play. It shows some guy scoring 27 points, but it doesn’t show that my 27-point man let his guy score 30.

A team should be an extension of a coach’s personality. My teams are arrogant and obnoxious.

Most people zero in on their failures. I try to keep all my attention on a pyramid type philosophy rather than the averaging-down philosophy.

I’m a ballplayer, not an actor.

In that case Mr. Barrow, Mr. Gehrig is a very underpaid ballplayer.

The biggest thrill a ballplayer can have is when your son takes after you. That happened when my Bobby was in his championship Little League game.

[Julie Marie Pacino]is a great ballplayer, which I wanted to be. She did make four films by the time she was 14 but we’re not going to talk about that.

I let ballplayers yell back at me because I wasn’t trying to prove I’m boss. I know I’m boss.