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

Trade a player a year too early rather than a year too late.

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.

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

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

Luck is the residue of opportunity and design.

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.