If you rush in and out of the clubhouse, you rush in and out of baseball.

Being Captain of the Dodgers meant representing an organization committed to winning and trying to keep it going. We could have won every year if the breaks had gone right.

Brooklyn was the most wonderful city a man could play in, and the fans there were the most loyal there were.

Why did they do it? Beats the hell out of me. I was just a scared kid from Kentucky, and these guys had been up in the majors for a while. I guess it was because I was just such a helluva nice kid - if you'll accept that.

You can hate a man for many reasons. Color is not one of them.

Changing from a player to a coach, I felt like a mosquito in a nudist colony. I didn't know where to begin.

If I had my career to play over, one thing I'd do differently is swing more. Those 1,200 walks I got, nobody remembers them.