Never surrender opportunity to security.

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

I find fault with my children because I like them and I want them to go places - uprightness and strength and courage and civil respect and anything that affects the probabilities of failure on the part of those that are closest to me, that concerns me - I find fault.

There never has been a man in the game who could put mind and muscle together quicker and with better judgment than Robinson.

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.

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

Things worthwhile generally don’t just happen. Luck is a fact, but should not be a factor. Good luck is what is left over after intelligence and effort have combined at their best. Negligence or indifference are usually reviewed from an unlucky seat. The law of cause and effect and causality both work the same with inexorable exactitudes. Luck is the residue of design.