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.

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.

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.

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

Only in baseball can a team player be a pure individualist first and a team player second, within the rules and spirit of the game.

Don't worry about your individual numbers. Worry about the team. If the team is successful, each of you will be successful, too.

Problems are the price you pay for progress.