Take pride in your work at all times. Remember, respect for an umpire is created off the field as well as on.

Keep your eye on the ball.

Review your work. You will find, if you are honest, that 90% of the trouble is traceable to loafing.

Keep all your personalities out of your work. Forget and forgive.

Baseball has always been slow to accept change. Only through dire pressure can any radical change be accomplished. The move of the Giants and Dodgers from New York to California brought that pressure in abundance.

I'd hate this to get out but I really like opera.

I cannot but feel that the one man, above all others, who deserves the eternal thanks of his own race, and all thinking people, for bringing about baseball’s greatest reform, is Jackie Robinson himself…Certainly baseball people should be eternally grateful for the contribution he made to his own people, and to the game.