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.

He (Leo Durocher) had the ability of taking a bad situation and making it immediately worse.

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

Problems are the price you pay for progress.

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

Success is that place in the road where preparation meets opportunity.

Good luck is what is left over after intelligence and effort have combined at their best. Luck is the residue of design.