Good luck is what is left over after intelligence and effort have combined at their best. Luck is the residue of design.

It is not the honor that you take with you, but the heritage you leave behind.

I cannot face my God much longer knowing that his black creatures are held separate and distinct from his white creatures in the game that has given me all that I can call my own.

Man may penetrate the outer reaches of the universe, he may solve the very secret of eternity itself but for me, the ultimate human experience is to witness the flawless execution of the hit-and-run.

Success is that place in the road where preparation meets opportunity.

If things don't come easy, there is no premium on effort. There should be joy in the chase, zest in the pursuit.

Ethnic prejudice has no place in sports, and baseball must recognize that truth if it is to maintain stature as a national game.

Worry is simply thinking the same thing over and over again and not doing anything about it.

The greatest untapped reservoir of raw material in the history of our game is the black race.

There never has been a man in the game who could put mind and muscle together quicker and with better judgment than Robinson.

I don't care if I was a ditch-digger at a dollar a day, I'd want to do my job better than the fellow next to me. I'd want to be the best at whatever I do.

If you want something you have never had, you must do something you have never done.

I didn't let what I wanted to do become a made up memory that I looked back on years down the road and wished it was real.

The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.

Who doesn't like money? I love money. Why not. My subject matter will change when I get to that point.

The corsets I wore in The Railway Children are still in my undies drawer, a prized relic of my favourite film

Family life is a daily struggle to turn love into happiness.

Life is so much easier when I allow myself to be myself and go with the flow.

The only security of all is in a free press.

The domestic life of most classes is relatively shabby, as compared with the éclat of that overt portion of their life that is carried on before the eyes of observers.

But here's the joy: my friend and I are one, Sweet flattery!