Do what you love to do and give it your very best. Whether it`s business or baseball, or the theater, or any field. If you don`t love what you`re doing and you can`t give it your best, get out of it. Life is too short. You`ll be an old man before you know it.
I`m delighted. I don`t know of anybody who had a statue built of them while they were living. It`s a great feeling.
The manager is by himself. He can`t mingle with his players. I enjoyed my players, but I could not socialize with them so I spent a lot of time alone in my hotel room. Those four walls kind of close in on you.
Everybody says we hated the Yankees. We didn`t hate the Yankees. We just hated the way they beat us.
Managing can be more discouraging than playing, especially when you`re losing because when you`re a player, there are at least individual goals you can shoot for. When you`re a manager all the worries of the team become your worries.
I usually stick out my hand and hope he puts the ball in it. Except the one time I went out to take Early Wynn out. I stuck out my hand and he hit me right in the stomach with the ball.
They say anything can happen in a short series. I just didn`t expect it to be that short.