Thou shalt not steal. I mean defensively. On offense, indeed thou shall steal and thou must.

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.

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

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

Each journey is an experience of the past.

What else do I have to offer? Nothing happens to me anymore. That’s the reality of getting old, and I guess that’s really the crux of the matter. I’m not ready to be old yet.

Mankind, not womankind, has slaughtered more humans in the name of God and Religion than for any other reason.

For Jack Kennedy, who only made campaigning LOOK easy, it was, in fact, anything but.

Delay always breeds danger and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.

I always wished I had died, and I still wish that, because I could have gotten the whole thing over with.

I would say I live half in New York and half in Claridge's. How decadent! How hysterical!

We may come to Jesus and ask Him; He will know all about it; if He comes to a little child, he will adapt himself to the language and capacity of a little child.

Opposition is dangerous to immortality.

You have to be producing to be able to be called a producer.