You can hate a man for many reasons. Color is not one of them.
I didn't want to play there when I first found out I was sold to Brooklyn, but I'm tickled to death. I'm glad I could play in Brooklyn.
If you had a son, it would be a great thing to have him grow up to be just like Gil Hodges.
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.
I used to tell Jackie (Robinson) sometimes when they were throwing at him, 'Jackie, they aren't throwing at you because you are black. They are throwing at you because they don't like you.