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

It is not the honor that you take with you, but the heritage you leave behind.

Never surrender opportunity to security.

Leo Durocher is a man with an infinite capacity for making a bad thing worse.

Baseball people, and that includes myself, are slow to change and accept new ideas. I remember that it took years to persuade them to put numbers on uniforms.

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

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.