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For being book smart, I thought he (A. Barlett Giamatti) had a lot of street smarts, which is tough to find sometimes.

The only way to make money as a manager is to win in one place, get fired and hired somewhere else.

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

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

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

If I managed the Cubs, I'd be an alcoholic.

What counts aren't the number of double plays, but the ones you should have had and missed.

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.

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

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 days.

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

I'd rather go fishing for three years.

We need just two players to be a contender. Just Babe Ruth and Sandy Koufax.