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

There never has been a man in the game who could put mind and muscle together quicker and with better judgment than Robinson.

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.

Ethnic prejudice has no place in sports, and baseball must recognize that truth if it is to maintain stature as a national game.

The only thing Abner Doubleday ever started was the Civil War.

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

Success is that place in the road where preparation meets opportunity.