The best possible thing in baseball is winning The World Series. The second best thing is losing The World Series.

The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man's determination.

There are three types of baseball players: Those who make it happen, those who watch it happen and those who wonder what happens.

No matter how good you are, you're going to lose one-third of your games. No matter how bad you are you're going to win one-third of your games. It's the other third that makes the difference.

If you don't root for the Dodgers, you might not get into heaven.

Talking about your troubles is no good. Eighty percent of your friends don't care and the rest are glad.

About the only problem with success is that it does not teach you how to deal with failure.

Pressure is a word that is misused in our vocabulary. When you start thinking of pressure, it's because you've started to think of failure.

Managing is like holding a dove in your hand. Squeeze too hard and you kill it; not hard enough and it flies away.

If you love your job, you haven't worked a day in your life.

The saddest day of the year is the day baseball season ends.

Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will.

The sun shines even on the wicked.

The problem with public school is not overcrowding in the classroom. The problem is not teacher unions. The problem is not underfunding or lack of computer equipment. The problem is your damn kids.

Because wherever I am today, I still owe it to God and I owe it to two men - the Honorable Elijah Muhammad and Malcolm X and of course, two very special women, my mother and my wife.

Failure: Is it a limitation? Bad timing? It's a lot of things. It's something you can't be afraid of, because you'll stop growing. The next step beyond failure could be your biggest success in life.

I don't think you can escape the environment we live in now.

In vain we build the city if we do not first build the man.

History, human or geological, represents our hypothesis, couched in terms of past events, devised to explain our present-day observations.

Music, love, death. Certainly a triangle of sorts; maybe even an eternal one. "The only people who can see the whole picture," he murmured, "are the ones who step out of the frame."

Do not wait for anybody or anything. Do whatever you can. Build your hope on none.