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

Leo Durocher is a man with an infinite capacity for making a bad thing worse.

Worry is simply thinking the same thing over and over again and not doing anything about it.

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.

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 world’s not so simple anymore, I guess it never was. We ignored it, now we can’t.

A great ballplayer is a player who will take a chance.