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

The rules are changed now, there's not any way to build a team today. It's just how much money you want to spend. You could be the world champions and somebody else makes a key acquisition or two and you're through.

There was only one manager who wanted to win the game and that was me. Micky Adams came here for a draw and he got the result he wanted.

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

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.

You sweat out the free agent thing in November then you make the trades in December. Then you struggle to sign the guys left in January and in February I get down to sewing all the new numbers on the uniforms.