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.

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.

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

It is not the honor that you take with you, but the heritage you leave behind.

The man with the ball is responsible for what happens to the ball.

Baseball is a game of inches.

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