“Been in this game one-hundred years, but I see new ways to lose ’em I never knew existed before.”

Everybody line up alphabetically according to your height.

I was not successful as a ball player, as it was a game of skill.

Don’t cut my throat, I may want to do that later myself.

You got to get twenty-seven outs to win.

The trick is growing up without growing old.

Being with a woman all night never hurt no professional baseball player. It’s staying up all night looking for a woman that does him in.

The trouble with women umpires is that I couldn’t argue with one. I’d put my arms around her and give her a little kiss.

The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided.

You gotta lose ’em some of the time. When you do, lose ’em right.

Son, we’d like to keep you around this season but we’re going to try and win a pennant.

Sure I played, did you think I was born at the age of 70 sitting in a dugout trying to manage guys like you?

The secret of successful managing is to keep the five guys who hate you away from the four guys who haven’t made up their minds.

Don’t drink in the hotel bar, that’s where I do my drinking.

There are three things you can do in a baseball game. You can win, or you can lose, or it can rain.

All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, and regardless of how much you blame him, it will not change you.

The only thing blame does is to keep the focus off you when you are looking for… reasons to explain your unhappiness or frustration.

Franz Kafka is an idea person. His books begin and end in ideas. Ideas have always been important to me in my writing.

Everything I have ever written has been in the same chair, in the same room.

Regulators have not been able to achieve the level of future clarity required to act pre-emptively.

In missional churches, the baby birds have been pushed out of the nest and are learning to fly for themselves.

I always wanted to be a golfer, only I realised that if I’d played golf I would have been skint.

It’s something that’s been part of my tenure at Exodus over the last decade plus.

The storm hit with all the fury of a woman who’d been dieting for six months, only to discover she’d gained four pounds.

It is a magic carpet under which everything has been swept.