He's the best prospect I've ever seen.
I am alarmed at the subtle invasion of professional football, which is gaining preeminence over baseball. It's unthinkable.
I find fault with my children because I like them and I want them to go places - uprightness and strength and courage and civil respect and anything that affects the probabilities of failure on the part of those that are closest to me, that concerns me - I find fault.
The world’s not so simple anymore, I guess it never was. We ignored it, now we can’t.
A game of great charm in the adoption of mathematical measurements to the timing of human movements, the exactitudes and adjustments of physical ability to hazardous chance. The speed of the legs, the dexterity of the body, the grace of the swing, the elusiveness of the slide - these are the features that make Americans everywhere forget the last syllable of a man's last name or the pigmentation of his skin.
These are uncertain times. We cannot be content to rest on yesterday's laurels. These are times when we must strengthen rather than let down those standards which have stood in such good stead in crises that are past. Baseball cannot be selfish, or irresponsible, or lax. Neither can the men who operate it.
A great ballplayer is a player who will take a chance.
He (Leo Durocher) had the ability of taking a bad situation and making it immediately worse.
The only thing Abner Doubleday ever started was the Civil War.
A full mind is an empty bat.
Thou shalt not steal. I mean defensively. On offense, indeed thou shall steal and thou must.
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.
I was in the top ten percent of my law school class. I am a Doctor of Juris Prudence. I have an honorary Doctor of Laws. So, would somebody please tell me why I spent four mortal hours today conversing with a person named Dizzy Dean.
Trade a player a year too early rather than a year too late.
How to use your leisure time is the biggest problem of a ballplayer.
Thinking about the devil is worse than seeing the devil.
Branch Rickey made me a better man.
Leo Durocher is a man with an infinite capacity for making a bad thing worse.
Baseball is a game of inches.
Luck is the residue of opportunity and design.
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.
Fill in any figure you want for that boy (Mickey Mantle). Whatever the figure, it's a deal.
When (Rube) Waddell had control and some sleep, he was unbeatable.
Leisure is the handmaiden of the devil.
Luck is a residue of design.
