Fill in any figure you want for that boy (Mickey Mantle). Whatever the figure, it's a deal.

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.

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

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.

It is not the honor that you take with you, but the heritage you leave behind.

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

Trade a player a year too early rather than a year too late.