A full mind is an empty bat.

If things don't come easy, there is no premium on effort. There should be joy in the chase, zest in the pursuit.

I don't care if I was a ditch-digger at a dollar a day, I'd want to do my job better than the fellow next to me. I'd want to be the best at whatever I do.

Ethnic prejudice has no place in sports, and baseball must recognize that truth if it is to maintain stature as a national game.

Cobb lived off the field as though he wished to live forever. He lived on the field as though it was his last day.

Baseball people, and that includes myself, are slow to change and accept new ideas. I remember that it took years to persuade them to put numbers on uniforms.

Baseball is a game of inches.

It is not the honor that you take with you, but the heritage you leave behind.

A great ballplayer is a player who will take a chance.

I find fault with my children because I like them and I want them to go places - uprightness and strength and courage and civil respect and anything that affects the probabilities of failure on the part of those that are closest to me, that concerns me - I find fault.

All I had was natural ability.

Luck is the residue of design.

Never surrender opportunity for security.

Only in baseball can a team player be a pure individualist first and a team player second, within the rules and spirit of the game.

Problems are the price you pay for progress.