I've never questioned the integrity of an umpire. Their eyesight, yes.

The nice guys are all over there, in seventh place.

Baseball is like church. Many attend, few understand.

Branch Rickey once said of me that I was a man with an infinite capacity for immediately making a bad thing worse.

Today a pitcher gets fined if the umpire thinks he threw at a batter. In the olden days, the umpire didn't have to take any courses in mind reading. The pitcher told you he was going to throw at you.

God takes care of drunks and third basemen

You don't save a pitcher for tomorrow. Tomorrow it may rain.

If you don't win, you're going to be fired. If you do win, you've only put off the day you're going to be fired.

I made a game effort to argue but two things were against me: the umpires and the rules.