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.

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

Problems are the price you pay for progress.

It (a baseball box score) doesn't tell how big you are, what church you attend, what color you are, or how your father voted in the last election. It just tells what kind of baseball player you were on that particular day.

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

I am alarmed at the subtle invasion of professional football, which is gaining preeminence over baseball. It's unthinkable.

I cannot face my God much longer knowing that his black creatures are held separate and distinct from his white creatures in the game that has given me all that I can call my own.