I was a left-handed dentist who made people cry.
They told me my services were no longer desired because they wanted to put in a youth program as an advance way of keeping the club going. I'll never make the mistake of being seventy again.
Sure I played, did you think I was born at the age of 70 sitting in a dugout trying to manage guys like you?
I came in here and a fella asked me to have a drink. I said I don't drink. Then another fella said hear you and Joe DiMaggio aren't speaking and I said I'll take that drink.
All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, and regardless of how much you blame him, it will not change you. The only thing blame does is to keep the focus off you when you are looking for... reasons to explain your unhappiness or frustration.
The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided.
The trick is growing up without growing old.
All right everyone, line up alphabetically according to your height.
Everybody line up alphabetically according to your height.
Managing is getting paid for home runs that someone else hits.
Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.
I broke in with four hits, and the writers promptly declared they had seen the new Ty Cobb. It took me only a few days to correct that impression.
Good pitching will always stop good hitting and vice-versa.
Without losers, where would the winners be?
The secret of successful managing is to keep the five guys who hate you away from the four guys who haven't made up their minds.
The Mets have shown me more ways to lose than I even knew existed.
I got players with bad watches - they can't tell midnight from noon.
Been in this game one-hundred years, but I see new ways to lose 'em I never knew existed before.
If we're going to win the pennant, we've got to start thinking we're not as good as we think we are.
Son, we'd like to keep you around this season but we're going to try and win a pennant.
