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• Leisure is the handmaiden of the devil.
• Never surrender opportunity to security.
• Man may penetrate the outer reaches of the universe, he may solve the very secret of eternity itself but for me, the…
• Don't worry about your individual numbers. Worry about the team. If the team is successful, each of you will be successful, too.
• Some day I'm going to have to stand before God, and if He asks me why I didn't let that [Jackie] Robinson…
• A great ballplayer is a player who will take a chance.
• I don't like the subtle infiltration of 'something for nothing' philosophies into the very hearthstone of the American family. I believe that…
• Baseball people, and that includes myself, are slow to change and accept new ideas. I remember that it took years to persuade…
• He (Leo Durocher) had the ability of taking a bad situation and making it immediately worse.
• How to use your leisure time is the biggest problem of a ballplayer.
• Ethnic prejudice has no place in sports, and baseball must recognize that truth if it is to maintain stature as a national…
• I am alarmed at the subtle invasion of professional football, which is gaining preeminence over baseball. It's unthinkable.

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