If you don't have outstanding relief pitching, you might as well piss on the fire and call the dogs.

- Whitey Herzog

We need three kinds of pitching: left-handed, right-handed and relief.

- Whitey Herzog

The only thing bad about winning the pennant is that you have to manage the All-Star Game the next year. I'd rather go fishing for three years.

- Whitey Herzog

The way we have been playing, I might tell my players not to cross the picket line (umpire strike of 1979).

- Whitey Herzog

Some people asked me if I would be interested in managing the A's. I said a definite no thank you. At night, that place is a graveyard with lights.

- Whitey Herzog

I'd rather go fishing for three years.

- Whitey Herzog

I'm not buddy-buddy with the players. If they need a buddy, let them buy a dog.

- Whitey Herzog

Baseball has been good to me since I quit trying to play it.

- Whitey Herzog

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- Whitey Herzog