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

Don't look at the hole in the doughnut. Look at the whole doughnut.

I cannot face my God much longer knowing that his black creatures are held separate and distinct from his white creatures in the game that has given me all that I can call my own.

Worry is simply thinking the same thing over and over again and not doing anything about it.

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

A game of great charm in the adoption of mathematical measurements to the timing of human movements, the exactitudes and adjustments of physical ability to hazardous chance. The speed of the legs, the dexterity of the body, the grace of the swing, the elusiveness of the slide - these are the features that make Americans everywhere forget the last syllable of a man's last name or the pigmentation of his skin.

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