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.

Things worthwhile generally don’t just happen. Luck is a fact, but should not be a factor. Good luck is what is left over after intelligence and effort have combined at their best. Negligence or indifference are usually reviewed from an unlucky seat. The law of cause and effect and causality both work the same with inexorable exactitudes. Luck is the residue of design.

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

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

We win if the world is convinced of two things, that you are a fine gentleman, and a great baseball player.

A full mind is an empty bat.

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