Baseball is a game of inches.

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

He (Leo Durocher) had the ability of taking a bad situation and making it immediately worse.

Luck is a residue of design.

I find fault with my children because I like them and I want them to go places - uprightness and strength and courage and civil respect and anything that affects the probabilities of failure on the part of those that are closest to me, that concerns me - I find fault.

These are uncertain times. We cannot be content to rest on yesterday's laurels. These are times when we must strengthen rather than let down those standards which have stood in such good stead in crises that are past. Baseball cannot be selfish, or irresponsible, or lax. Neither can the men who operate it.

The world’s not so simple anymore, I guess it never was. We ignored it, now we can’t.