Walt Alston

It's not the winter that bothers me - it's the summers.

More than anyone else, Hank Aaron made me wish I wasn't a manager.

Fans tend to get too excited by streaks of either kind and I think the press does too. There should be a happy medium.

I'd rather win two or three, lose one, win two or three more. I'm a great believer in things evening out. If you win a whole bunch in a row, somewhere along the line you're going to lose some too.

Perhaps the truest axiom in baseball is that the toughest thing to do is repeat.

Look at misfortune the same way you look at success - Don't Panic! Do you best and forget the consequences.