Every time I fail to smoke a cigarette between innings, the opposition will score.

Don't play for one run unless you know that run will win a ballgame.

When you play for one run, that's usually all you get. I have nothing against the bunt in its place, but most of the time, that place is in the bottom of a long-forgotten closet.

Ninety-nine percent of the time . . . if we have a problem, they (visitors) will comply. That 1 percent of the time we need to be aggressive, we have an ordinance to back it.

Most of the umpires, it's amazing: 98 percent of them will not hold a grudge. I always felt a couple of them did. I never wanted to argue with an umpire in my life.

Judging ballplayers and turning in reports, giving my opinion of who will get to the big leagues and who will not... I think my baseball judgment was really good.