My first interest in baseball is the welfare of baseball itself. My second is the Cincinnati Reds, and my third is Warren Giles.

I didn't make any friends in New York by insisting on moving the league headquarters to Cincinnati. The fact was that my son Bill was in school. His mother had passed away, and I didn't want to take the boy away from his school and to a strange city.

Be fearful when others are greedy, and be greedy when others are fearful

I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures.

The first rule is not to lose. The second rule is not to forget the first rule.

Sometimes, you get things right the first time. Others, the second. But the third time, they say, is the charm.