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

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.

I'm a true believer in karma. You get what you give wheter it's bad or good.

I don't want this to come off bad at all, but I really don't watch Disney shows. I don't. I like the animated ones, but I just don't have time to watch a lot of TV.

Style is what gives value and currency to thoughts.

Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.

I grew up in a neighborhood with blacks and Puerto Ricans and Italians, the whole gamut, so conveying unity has always meant a lot to me.

So one begins to wonder what is going to happen to the human race. Technology keeps on advancing with greater and greater power, either for good or for destruction.

As a result of the billions of dollars flowing into Iran after the JCPOA, the Iranian regime is able to increase its support to terrorist group groups like Hezbollah.

I am America. I am the part you won't recognize. But get used to me. Black, confident, cocky; my name, not yours; my religion, not yours; my goals, my own; get used to me.

I take things too seriously.

My only goal is to stay focused on my craft and make sure my life is as sharp as it can be to attack any character that is given to me.

I love singing and that's kind of my new thing.

Those who elected Hamas in Palestine did so on the basis of its political platform.

Success is the culmination of failures, mistakes, false starts, confusion, and the determination to keep going anyway.

Basically, Urban Fantasy means D&D in New York. Ordinary people have no idea that they share the world with fantastic, supernatural creatures. It can't just be vampires or werewolves; it has to be a whole continuum of fantastic beings, with their own society within society.

Even though I don't necessarily believe in everything that's supernatural, I like being scared and I like things that are suspenseful.

The only people that can make peace are the parties to the conflict, and just as they are responsible for the conflict and its consequences, so should they be given responsibility and recognition for the peace.

There are two men inside the artist, the poet and the craftsman. One is born a poet. One becomes a craftsman.

A lot of artists fell in love with me over the years.

If you want to go out and see a movie and sit in a dark room with strangers, it's not an experience you can replicate at home.

When I made my Broadway debut, I was still cleaning houses, something I'd done since I went out on my own at 15.

As a writer, as a lyricist, you're just trying to make sure that you're not repeating yourself. And that's a danger for a lot of people. So for me, I just try to keep taking corners and trying to find new paths.

I said, 'Ooh, Dad, I want the yellow ones.' He said, 'Where?' I said, 'Right there, Dad. I want the yellow ones.' Everybody goes, 'Those are green'. That's how I knew I was colorblind.

Women stand for the objective world for a man. They stand for the thing that you're not and that's what you always reach for in a song.

I'm a very stubborn woman and I'm from a very stubborn family of headstrong women. I have sisters, so the women rule the coop in my house.