Never surrender opportunity to security.

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

Don't worry about your individual numbers. Worry about the team. If the team is successful, each of you will be successful, too.

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.

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

Thinking about the devil is worse than seeing the devil.

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.