Watching other teams in the World Series is like watching somebody else eat a Hot Fudge Sundae.
There will be a time when everyone on the team is going to contribute to winning a pennant.
As a member of a competitive team, you want to make sure you have yourself ready to play. You don't control anything but what you do.
Whatever sport you're looking at, it's usually the team that makes the least mistakes that has the most success.
I think that winning creates chemistry, as opposed to other way around. I've been on a lot of friendly teams that couldn't win, trust me.
Baseball is a team sport played by individuals for themselves.
When I was a teenager and my brother Frank was in the World Series in '57 and '58 against the Yankees, Braves winning in '57 and the Yankees in '58, little did I know the next time these two teams would meet in the World Series, I would be managing the Yankees.