“I got players with bad watches – they can’t tell midnight from noon.”

Never make predictions, especially about the future.

No baseball pitcher would be worth a darn without a catcher who could handle the hot fastball.

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.

I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.

Learn from the masses, and then teach them.

I think the biggest challenge when I’m on the road is being away from my family.

I am a normal guy from the Black Forest, and I do not compare myself with the geniuses.

So, even though people don’t have a lot here, they are a lot richer in many ways and we can learn from that.

I would travel with a suitcase full of diamonds and take them from point A to point B.

Men err from selfishness; women because they are weak.

We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones.