Only in baseball can a team player be a pure individualist first and a team player second, within the rules and spirit of the game.

I don't like the subtle infiltration of 'something for nothing' philosophies into the very hearthstone of the American family. I believe that 'Thou shalt earn the bread by the sweat of thy face' was a benediction and not a penalty. Work is the zest of life; there is joy in its pursuit.

Luck is the residue of opportunity and design.

The world’s not so simple anymore, I guess it never was. We ignored it, now we can’t.

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

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.

The greatest untapped reservoir of raw material in the history of our game is the black race.