I am alarmed at the subtle invasion of professional football, which is gaining preeminence over baseball. It's unthinkable.

Thou shalt not steal. I mean defensively. On offense, indeed thou shall steal and thou must.

Worry is simply thinking the same thing over and over again and not doing anything about it.

Baseball people are generally allergic to new ideas; it took years to persuade them to put numbers on uniforms, and it is the hardest thing in the world to get Major League Baseball to change anything—even spikes on a new pair of shoes—but they will eventually...they are bound to.

The greatest untapped reservoir of raw material in the history of our game is the black race.

Problems are the price you pay for progress.

I'm a man of some intelligence. I've had some education, passed the bar, practiced law. I've been a teacher and I deal with men of substance, statesman, business leaders, the clergy... So why do I spend my time arguing with Dizzy Dean?