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

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.

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.

Baseball is a game of inches.

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.

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

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.