Some day I'm going to have to stand before God, and if He asks me why I didn't let that [Jackie] Robinson fellow play ball, I don't think saying 'because of the color of his skin' would be a good enough answer.

Baseball is a game of inches.

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.

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

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

Luck is the residue of opportunity and design.