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

Baseball people, and that includes myself, are slow to change and accept new ideas. I remember that it took years to persuade them to put numbers on uniforms.

I'm a man of some intelligence. I've had some education, passed the bar, practiced law. I've been a teacher and I deal with men of substance, statesman, business leaders, the clergy... So why do I spend my time arguing with Dizzy Dean?

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

I did not mind the public criticism. That sort of thing has not changed any program I thought was good.

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

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