Success is that place in the road where preparation meets opportunity.

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.

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

A game of great charm in the adoption of mathematical measurements to the timing of human movements, the exactitudes and adjustments of physical ability to hazardous chance. The speed of the legs, the dexterity of the body, the grace of the swing, the elusiveness of the slide - these are the features that make Americans everywhere forget the last syllable of a man's last name or the pigmentation of his skin.

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

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

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