The rules are changed now, there's not any way to build a team today. It's just how much money you want to spend. You could be the world champions and somebody else makes a key acquisition or two and you're through.

We need just two players to be a contender. Just Babe Ruth and Sandy Koufax.

I'm not buddy-buddy with the players. If they need a buddy, let them buy a dog.

What counts aren't the number of double plays, but the ones you should have had and missed.

Baseball has been good to me since I quit trying to play it.

The only thing bad about winning the pennant is that you have to manage the All-Star Game the next year. I'd rather go fishing for three years.

The rules are changed now, there's not any way to build a team today. It's just how much money you want to spend. You could be the world champions and somebody else makes a key acquisition or two and you're through.

We need three kinds of pitching: left handed, right handed, and relief.

You sweat out the free agent thing in November then you make the trades in December. Then you struggle to sign the guys left in January and in February I get down to sewing all the new numbers on the uniforms.

The only way to make money as a manager is to win in one place, get fired and hired somewhere else.

Some people asked me if I would be interested in managing the A's. I said a definite no thank you. At night, that place is a graveyard with lights.

The only thing bad about winning the pennant is that you have to manage the All-Star Game the next year. I'd rather go fishing for three days.

Be on time. Bust your butt. Play smart. And have some laugh while you're at It.

In sales, a referral is the key to the door of resistance.

Prayer: the key of the day and the lock of the night.

The key to accepting responsibility for your life is to accept the fact that your choices, every one of them, are leading you inexorably to either success or failure, however you define those terms.

The key to Operations at Wal-Mart is their ability to maintain the highest standards while at the same time getting things done with lockstep execution.

I think the key is for women not to set any limits.

We must develop knowledge optimization initiatives to leverage our key learnings.

Above all, I would teach him to tell the truth Truth-telling, I have found, is the key to responsible citizenship. The thousands of criminals I have seen in 40 years of law enforcement have had one thing in common: Every single one was a liar.

I do not mind having written the song at all. I just wish that I had written it in a different key, as the high d is hard to play. I am glad that I wrote something that brought joy to millions of people.

The Pakistani government under Musharraf is a strong and key player in the global war on terrorism, and their contribution has been second to none.

If you stop and think about our history, one of the reasons we had an American century and there is an American dream was because at key points in our history we made very bold decisions about making sure that there was very broad, universal access to quality education.

And that's what I've learned too: writing is key.

The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.

The key to the mystery of a great artist is that for reasons unknown, he will give away his energies and his life just to make sure that one note follows another... and leaves us with the feeling that something is right in the world.

Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As a being of power, intelligence, and love, and the lord of his own thoughts, he holds the key to every situation.

The key to winning is poise under stress.

Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

You must find the note, the correct key, for your story. If you find it, everything will work. If you do not, everything will stick out like elbows.

Who knows, the mind has the key to all things besides.

One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.

A key U.S. initiative in this trade war must be to develop reliable trading partners in the world.

Every city across the country that has successfully renewed and revitalized itself points to a robust education system as its fundamental key to success.

The key to organizing an alternative society is to organize people around what they can do, and more importantly, what they want to do.

The key to a winning season is focusing on one opponent at a time. Winning one week at a time. Never look back and never look ahead.

I think getting drunk is the key to flying comfortably. A couple of bloody marys or several glasses of champagne, and suddenly it's like you're on a roller coaster.

I got bored with the old way - it came too easy. I worked until I could play and chord changes at any tempo in any key, and then said 'What else is there?' Now I'm finding out.

Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future.

What I'm going to be given I gather is not the key to the city, which in many cities is the case. It's the freedom medal, and for me freedom has always been associated traditionally within the city.

It's obvious that the key problem facing humanity in the coming century is how to bring a better quality of life - for 8 billion or more people - without wrecking the environment entirely in the attempt.

With The Key, it was, I had gone through a divorce and losing my father, and just kinda really reminiscing about how much I loved the traditional side of country music, so I made a record that was really traditional from start to finish.

In California, of all places, entertainment is the key to a vibrant economy. If we do not develop young adults capable of entering that world, the financial base of this state is sure to suffer and impact all of us.

The key to making the inspections work is the Iraqi government making the crucial decision that because of the international pressure Iraq has to disarm itself.

My view is different. Public relations are a key component of any operation in this day of instant communications and rightly inquisitive citizens.

Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite.

Our senses are indeed our doors and windows on this world, in a very real sense the key to the unlocking of meaning and the wellspring of creativity.

For me, the key is I always have to be the same person.If someone was to hear me say something on Fox and hear me say something different on NPR, they would say, 'The guy is a hypocrite.'

We also had good software in the key categories and more focus on the gameplaying capability, so more of the marketing effort was targeted at game customers.