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

How to use your leisure time is the biggest problem of a ballplayer.

The greatest untapped reservoir of raw material in the history of our game is the black race.

If things don't come easy, there is no premium on effort. There should be joy in the chase, zest in the pursuit.

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

It (a baseball box score) doesn't tell how big you are, what church you attend, what color you are, or how your father voted in the last election. It just tells what kind of baseball player you were on that particular day.

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.