Thou shalt not steal. I mean defensively. On offense, indeed thou shall steal and thou must.

First of all, a man, whether seeking achievement on the athletic field or in business, must want to win. He must feel that the thing he is doing is worthwhile; so worthwhile that he is willing to pay the price of success to attain distinction.

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.

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

Baseball people are generally allergic to new ideas; it took years to persuade them to put numbers on uniforms, and it is the hardest thing in the world to get Major League Baseball to change anything—even spikes on a new pair of shoes—but they will eventually...they are bound to.

Luck is a residue of design.

The only thing Abner Doubleday ever started was the Civil War.