Thinking about the devil is worse than seeing the devil.

If things don't come easy, there is no premium on effort. There should be joy in the chase, zest in the pursuit.

I cannot face my God much longer knowing that his black creatures are held separate and distinct from his white creatures in the game that has given me all that I can call my own.

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

Leo Durocher is a man with an infinite capacity for making a bad thing worse.

Only in baseball can a team player be a pure individualist first and a team player second, within the rules and spirit of the game.

I don't care if I was a ditch-digger at a dollar a day, I'd want to do my job better than the fellow next to me. I'd want to be the best at whatever I do.