The main quality a great third base coach must have is a fast runner.

Well, there are three things that the average man thinks he can do better than anybody else. Build a fire, run a hotel and manage a baseball team.

On Jose Gonzalez changing his name to Jose Uribe: 'He was definitely the player to be named later.'

Coaching third with a pitcher on base is like being a member of a bomb disposal squad. The thing could blow up in your face at any moment.

The players are too serious. They don't have any fun any more. They come to camp with a financial adviser and they read the stock market page before the sports pages. They concern themselves with statistics rather than simply playing the game and enjoying it for what it is.

I bet you don't know what is the first thing Little Leaguers always ask me, 'How much money do you make?'

It's a good thing I stayed in Cincinnati for four years -- It took me that long to learn how to spell it.