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.

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

Problems are the price you pay for progress.

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

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

Baseball is a game of inches.

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.