Whitey Herzog Quotes

The first intimation I had that the Yankees were for sale was through an item to that effect in the newspapers. The idea instantly occurred to me that here was a prospect to become interested in a major-league club at home.

I would love to get back to the big leagues as a coach, possibly a manager. I would love that opportunity.

No former player has owned a team in baseball.

We plan absentee ownership as far as running the Yankees is concerned.

I think I'd like to be an owner of a Major League Baseball team.

I would like to own the Red Sox.

Once in a while, I played second base; once in a while, outfield. But those were just pickup games and softball leagues. So when I bought the Yankees, I tried to stay one pace ahead of the players.

I became a major league manager in several cities and was discharged. We call it discharged because there was no question I had to leave.

Some people are born and train their whole life to be an NBA player. But some people, if it doesn't work out, then they have no other option.

I want to be drafted to a team that knows exactly what they're getting.

Night baseball isn't an aberration. What's an aberration is a team that hasn't won a World Series since 1908. They tend to think of themselves as a little Williamsburg, a cute little replica of a major league franchise. Give me the Oakland A's, thank you very much. People who do it right.

Rooting for the Yankees is like rooting for U.S. Steel.

How did Mike Bibby get on the team? Any Cub Scout with Boy Scouts can do Boy Scoutish things. When Bibby was in the Cub Scouts, he was a Cub Scout. When he was with Vancouver, nobody heard about him. Now that he's with Sacramento... he's on the team. I ain't going.

I obviously wanted to play for the Kansas City Royals. (Laughter) I also knew that was far-fetched. The truth is I don't really know what I wanted to do.

I managed 26 years and found out when I retired I didn't own the game. I thought I owned it when I was managing all those years. You can climb to the top of the mountain, get down on your knees and kiss the ground, because you'll never own that mountain. That mountain is only owned by one single person, and he'll never give it up. That's the way baseball is.

Although the world proved not yet ready for the brotherhood of baseball, that would be only a matter of time, baseball magnates believed.

The Mets are gonna be amazing.

This is Rickey calling on behalf of Rickey. Rickey wants to play baseball.

We were like farm animals compared to today's players who are treated like thoroughbreds.

It hasn't yet materialized that I went into sports management, but I haven't ruled it out yet, either. I only half-jokingly remarked that I'd love to be the commissioner of the NFL. But as I recently told current Commissioner Roger Goodell, that job looked a lot more appealing when I was struggling with the Russians and the Iranians everyday.

One thing I learned in the NBA is that the No. 1 job of a general manager is to keep his job. They are only 30 positions where you make millions and hang around with basketball players all day.

Enos Cabell started out here with the Astros, and before that he was with the Orioles.

I was actually hoping the Royals would pick me. It was the main team I wanted to go to. Their colors are Royal blue and that's my favorite color.?

Baseball, like some other sports, poses as a sacred institution dedicated to the public good, but it is actually a big, selfish business with a ruthlessness that many big businesses would never think of displaying.

Once that was over, I knew that my ties to a football organization would be over because I never wanted to coach or be in the front office.