Changing from a player to a coach, I felt like a mosquito in a nudist colony. I didn't know where to begin.
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.
If you rush in and out of the clubhouse, you rush in and out of baseball.
Maybe tomorrow we'll all wear 42, so nobody can tell us apart.
You can hate a man for many reasons. Color is not one of them.
I had only played five games in my senior year in high school. I was not large enough. Hell, when I graduated, I was about five foot four and weighed 120 pounds. I didn't go with the Dodgers until spring training of 1940 and I weighed all of 155 pounds soaking wet.