Well, the fella I got on there is hitting pretty good and I know he can make that throw, and if he don't make it that other fella I got coming has sh….

You make your own luck. Some people have bad luck all their lives..

The trouble is not that players have sex the night before a game. It's that they stay out all night looking for it..

Once someone gave me a picture and I wrote 'Do good in school.' I looked up and the guy was 78 years old.

Most ball games are lost, not won..

Johnny Sain don't say much, but that don't matter much, because when you're out there on the mound, you got nobody to talk to..

If we're going to win the pennant, we've got to start thinking we're not as good as we think we are..

They examined all my organs. Some of them are quite remarkable and others are not so good. A lot of museums are bidding for them..

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

Don't cut off your nose yourself..

The Yankees don't pay me to win every day, just two out of three..

He (Gil Hodges) fields better on one leg than anybody else I got on two..

Mr. that boy couldn't hit the ground if he fell out of an airplane..

He (Mickey Mantle) should lead the league in everything. With his combination of speed and power he should win the triple batting crown every year. I….

I became a major league manager in several cities and was discharged. We call it discharged because there was no question I had to leave..

They got a lot of kids now whose uniforms are so tight, especially the pants, that they cannot bend over to pick up ground balls. And they don't want….

Left-handers have more enthusiasm for life. They sleep on the wrong side of the bed, and their head gets more stagnant on that side..

It's easy to get good players. Getting them to play together, that's the hard part..

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

There's nobody on my ball club that doesn't go from first to third on a base hit, or from second to home. Every time you steal a base, you're taking ….

He (Lyndon B. Johnson) wanted to see poverty, so he came to see my team (1964 New York Mets)..