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

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.

First of all, a man, whether seeking achievement on the athletic field or in business, must want to win. He must feel that the thing he is doing is worthwhile; so worthwhile that he is willing to pay the price of success to attain distinction.

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.

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

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

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