People who live in the past generally are afraid to compete in the present. I've got my faults, but living in the past is not one of them. There's no future in it.

My idea of managing is giving the ball to Tom Seaver and sitting down and watching him work.

I understand people who boo us. It's like going to Broadway show, you pay for your tickets and expect to be entertained. When you're not, you have a right to complain.

The great thing about baseball is when you're done, you'll only tell your grandchildren the good things. If they ask me about 1989, I'll tell them I had amnesia.

Success is the person who year after year reaches the highest limits in his field.

I don't want to embarrass any other catcher by comparing him to Johnny Bench.

I don't believe a manager ever won a pennant. Casey Stengel won all those pennants with the Yankees. How many did he win with the Boston Braves and Mets?

I only had a high school education and believe me, I had to cheat to get that.

If I ever find a pitcher who has heat, a good curve, and a slider, I might seriously consider marrying him, or at least proposing.

Players have two things to do. Play and keep their mouths shut.

Me carrying a briefcase is like a hotdog wearing earrings.

Good seasons start with good beginnings.

They say the first World Series is the one you remember most. No, no no. I guarantee you don't remember that one because the fantasy world you always dreamed about is suddenly real.

Just give me 25 guys on the last year of their contracts; I'll win a pennant every year.

We're the best team in baseball, but not by much.

The players make the manager, it's never the other way.

You give us the pitching some of these clubs have and no one could touch us, but God has a way of not arranging that, because it's not as much fun.

It's a terrible thing to have to tell your fans, who have waited like Detroit's have, that their team won't win it this year. But it's better than lying to them.

A baseball manager is a necessary evil.

People who live in the past generally are afraid to compete in the present. I've got my faults, but living in the past is not one of them. There's no future in it.

The only reason I'm coming out here tomorrow is the schedule says I have to.

Baseball is a simple game. If you have good players and if you keep them in the right frame of mind then the manager is a success.

Casey knew his baseball. He only made it look like he was fooling around. He knew every move that was ever invented and some that we haven't even caught on to yet.

The only thing I believe is this: A player does not have to like a manager and he does not have to respect a manager. All he has to do is obey the rules.

I think it would be very boring dramatically to have a film where everybody was a lawyer or doctor and had no faults. To me, the most important thing is to be truthful.

The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.

Parents forgive their children least readily for the faults they themselves instilled in them.

Just as a child respects his father even when he perceives his weaknesses and faults, so a German will not despise the old Germany which was once a symbol of greatness to him.

When I was playing the game we never had the benefit of TV or video to analyse our techniques or look at faults, we depended on other cricketers to watch us and then tell us what they thought we were doing wrong.

Our own self-love draws a thick veil between us and our faults.

I have a list a mile long of faults that sometimes bring me to my knees in self-hatred.

Be to their virtue very kind; be to their faults a little blind.

Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.

I may have many faults, but being wrong ain't one of them.

Of all the things I could know, my own faults and weaknesses are pretty much the most important.

We all have faults, and mine is being wicked.

To copy beauty forfeits all pretense to fame; to copy faults is want of sense.

The Pilgrim and the Puritan whom we honor tonight were men who did a great deal of work in the world. They had their faults and their - shortcomings, but they were not slothful in business and they were most fervent in spirit.

Jealousy is, I think, the worst of all faults because it makes a victim of both parties.

We are people with all the hopes, dreams, passions, and faults of everyone else. Eighty percent of us are born into families with no history of dwarfism.

I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.

I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

The essence of a man is found in his faults.

Removing the faults in a stage-coach may produce a perfect stage-coach, but it is unlikely to produce the first motor car.

Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.

Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.

All the faults of the age come from Christianity and journalism. Christianity, of course, but why journalism?

If, when you charged a person with his faults, you credited him with his virtues too, you would probably like everybody.

For all its terrible faults, in one sense America is still the last, best hope of mankind, because it spells out so vividly the kind of happiness that most people actually want, regardless of what they are told they ought to want.