Trade a player a year too early rather than a year too late.
Baseball is a game of inches.
Some day I'm going to have to stand before God, and if He asks me why I didn't let that [Jackie] Robinson fellow play ball, I don't think saying 'because of the color of his skin' would be a good enough answer.
Leo Durocher is a man with an infinite capacity for making a bad thing worse.
Luck is a residue of design.
Thou shalt not steal. I mean defensively. On offense, indeed thou shall steal and thou must.