It was always himself that the coward abandoned first. After this all other betrayals came easily.
He (Leo Durocher) had the ability of taking a bad situation and making it immediately worse.
Some day I'm going to have to stand before God, and if He asks me why I didn't let that [Jackie] Robinson fellow play ball, I don't think saying 'because of the color of his skin' would be a good enough answer.
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.
Things worthwhile generally don’t just happen. Luck is a fact, but should not be a factor. Good luck is what is left over after intelligence and effort have combined at their best. Negligence or indifference are usually reviewed from an unlucky seat. The law of cause and effect and causality both work the same with inexorable exactitudes. Luck is the residue of design.
There was never a man in the game who could put mind and muscle together quicker and with better judgment than (Jackie) Robinson.
The writer needs to react to his or her own internal universe, to his or her own point of view. If he or she doesn't have a personal point of view, it's impossible to be a creator.
What we find is that our brains have colossal things happening in them all the time.
Nobody felt sad as long as we could postpone tomorrow with more nostalgia.
Hope is not a dream but a way of bringing things into reality.