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

If you have to choose between power and speed and it often turns out you have to make that choice, you've got to go for speed.

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

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

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

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

In much of the West, the well educated have been taught to believe that they can know nothing and that they can draw no independent conclusions about truth, unless they cite a study and "experts" have affirmed it. "Studies show" is to the modern secular college graduate what "Scripture says" is to the religious fundamentalist

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

If I hear Bowie Kuhn say just once more he's doing something for the betterment of baseball, I'm going to throw-up.

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.