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

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

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

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.

Never surrender opportunity to security.

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.

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