Whitey Herzog

If I managed the Cubs, I'd be an alcoholic.

— Whitey Herzog

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

— Whitey Herzog

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

— Whitey Herzog

I'd rather go fishing for three years.

— Whitey Herzog

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

— Whitey Herzog

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

— Whitey Herzog

For being book smart, I thought he (A. Barlett Giamatti) had a lot of street smarts, which is tough to find sometimes.

— Whitey Herzog

The way we have been playing, I might tell my players not to cross the picket line (umpire strike of 1979).

— Whitey Herzog

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

— Whitey Herzog

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

— Whitey Herzog

Some people asked me if I would be interested in managing the A's. I said a definite no thank you. At night,…

— Whitey Herzog

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

— Whitey Herzog

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

— Whitey Herzog

You sweat out the free agent thing in November, then you make the trades in December. Then you struggle to sign the…

— Whitey Herzog

The rules are changed now, there's not any way to build a team today. It's just how much money you want to…

— Whitey Herzog

A slick way to outfigure a person is to get him figuring you figure he's figuring you're figuring he'll figure you aren't…

— Whitey Herzog

One time in spring training, we had the hit-and-run on, and Carl Erskine threw me a curve and I struck out into…

— Whitey Herzog

If you don't have outstanding relief pitching, you might as well piss on the fire and call the dogs.

— Whitey Herzog

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

— Whitey Herzog