"I get fired because I'm not a yes-man. The world's full of yes men. The first year that I became the Manager in 1969 with the Twins, I won a Division Championship. And got fired. The Tigers hired me. I had made $35,000 and the Tigers gave me a big raise. I won another Division Championship and got fired again. Then Texas hired me with a bigger raise. I came in second, and I got fired. The Yankees hired me, and tripled my salary. When I got fired there, Oakland hired me and gave me an unbelievable raise. I've got a long-term contract now, but if I get fired again, I might run for President." Billy Martin.

"What do Michael Jackson and Steve Sax have in common? They each wear a glove on one hand for no apparent reason." Johnny Carson. Dodgers Pedro Guerrero committed several hard-to-believe fielding errors during one game. At the same time Dodgers' 2nd baseman Steve Sax was undergoing his horrendous fielding slump in which he couldn't throw the most routine ball to first without trouble. Tommy Lasorda decided it was time for one of his famous motivational meetings and zeroed in on Pedro Guerrero: "How can you play third base like that? You've gotta be thinking about something besides baseball. What is it?" "Two things," Guerrero said. "What's the first thing?" "God, don't let them hit the ball to me." "And what's the other thing?" Lasorda said. "I'm thinking: "Don't hit it to Saxxy either."