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.

We win if the world is convinced of two things, that you are a fine gentleman, and a great baseball player.

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

Never surrender opportunity to security.

How to use your leisure time is the biggest problem of a ballplayer.

Don't look at the hole in the doughnut. Look at the whole doughnut.

A great ballplayer is a player who will take a chance.