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

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

How to use your leisure time is the biggest problem of a ballplayer.

These are uncertain times. We cannot be content to rest on yesterday's laurels. These are times when we must strengthen rather than let down those standards which have stood in such good stead in crises that are past. Baseball cannot be selfish, or irresponsible, or lax. Neither can the men who operate it.

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.

Good luck is what is left over after intelligence and effort have combined at their best. Luck is the residue of design.

I cannot face my God much longer knowing that his black creatures are held separate and distinct from his white creatures in the game that has given me all that I can call my own.