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

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.

I am alarmed at the subtle invasion of professional football, which is gaining preeminence over baseball. It's unthinkable.

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.

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

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