We wept, Brooklyn was a lovely place to hit. If you got a ball in the air, you had a chance to get it out. When they tore down Ebbets Field, they tore down a little piece of me.

My high salary for one season was forty-six thousand dollars and a Cadillac.

Swing hard, in case they throw the ball where you're swinging.

Man, if I made one million dollars I would come in at six in the morning, sweep the stands, wash the uniforms, clean out the office, manage the team and play the games.

He (Jackie Robinson) was the greatest competitor I've ever seen. I've seen him beat a team with his bat, his ball, his glove, his feet and, in a game in Chicago one time, with his mouth.

You know you're pitching well when the batters look as bad as you do at the plate.

What a player does best, he should practice least. Practice is for problems.

Not even the Emerald Isle itself was as green as the grass that grew in Ebbets Field.

If our 14 billion year cosmic history were scaled to 1 year, then 100, 000 years of human history would be 4 minutes, and a 100 year life would be 0.2 seconds.

I prefer to rely on my memory. I have lived with that memory a long time, I am used to it, and if I have rearranged or distorted anything, surely that was done for my own benefit.

You want to know who's now running the U.S. Army, the U.S. Navy and the Marines and calling the shots where it counts? Fundamentalist Muslims and homosexual activists.

Have you ever been to an AA meeting? No wonder these people are alcoholics - I've never needed a drink more badly in my life.

It is impossible to forget the sense of dignity which marks the hour when one becomes a wage-earner... I felt that I had suddenly acquired value to myself, to my family, and to the world.

A vacant mind invites dangerous inmates, as a deserted mansion tempts wandering outcasts to enter and take up their abode in its desolate apartments.

America's always had a real passion for lunatic movements.

My karate skills are very limited. I'm a green belt.

Please stop waiting for a map. We reward those who draw maps, not those who follow them.

It is the sky that makes the earth so lovely at sunrise, and so splendid at sunset. In the one it breathes over the earth the crystal-like ether, in the other the liquid gold.