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Your job as a baseball player is to come to the park ready to play every day, and the manager, it's his job to make those decisions about who plays.

Bad ballplayers make good managers.

Pitchers really don't deal with the managers a whole lot. When we come in the clubhouse, we see him, we say, 'Hey.' That's really it.

If I had any interest in coming back to baseball, it would be as a general manager and not as a manager.

If you're playing baseball and thinking about managing, you're crazy. You'd be better off thinking about being an owner.

Managing is getting paid for home runs that someone else hits.

A manager has to convince his hitters that they have to get on base for the next guy and that no player can do it by himself. Sometimes that isn't easy. In the playoffs, you can get into trouble because everybody wants to be a hero.

Many baseball fans look upon an umpire as a sort of necessary evil to the luxury of baseball, like the odor that follows an automobile.

There's nothing bad that accrues from baseball.