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

Fill in any figure you want for that boy (Mickey Mantle). Whatever the figure, it's a deal.

I did not mind the public criticism. That sort of thing has not changed any program I thought was good.

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

Never surrender opportunity to security.

Ethnic prejudice has no place in sports, and baseball must recognize that truth if it is to maintain stature as a national game.

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