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

Luck is the residue of opportunity and design.

Baseball is a game of inches.

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

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

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

Thinking about the devil is worse than seeing the devil.