Finding good players is easy. Getting them to play as a team is another story.
Nowadays, when a pitcher gets a ball close to the hitter, the hitter comes back to the bench and says: "You know, I think he's throwing at me." That shows you how times have changed. When I broke in, you knew damned well they were throwing at you.
There comes a time at least once in every man's life, and I've had plenty of them.
Maybe, but I don't have another life to live to wait around for it.
I guess this means they fired me. I'll never make the mistake of being 70 years old again.
This makes a man think. You look up and down the bench and you say to yourself, "Can't anybody here play this game?"
Now the secret to successful managing is to break down your club. The first 15 guys you don't have to bother with. They are always playing and don't need the manager. The next five play only occasionally, so you got to keep buttering them up. The last five you gotta watch all the time because they're plotting to get you fired.
There ain't nothin' to it. You go into the fancy meeting room and you just sit there and never open your yap. As long as you don't say nuthin' they don't know whether you're smart or dumb. When the question of a loan comes up, if it's a friend of yours, you vote to give it to him and if he ain't a friend, you don't.
The new park sure holds the heat. The heat took the press right out of my pants.