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

The speed of the legs, the dexterity of the body, the grace of the swing, the elusiveness of the slide – these are the features that make Americans everywhere forget the last syllable of a man’s last name or the pigmentation of his skin.

Success is that place in the road where preparation meets opportunity.

Luck is the residue of opportunity and design.

A game of great charm in the adoption of mathematical measurements to the timing of human movements, the exactitudes and adjustments of physical ability to hazardous chance.

Trade a player a year too early rather than a year too late.

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

First of all, a man, whether seeking achievement on the athletic field or in business, must want to win. He must feel that the thing he is doing is worthwhile; so worthwhile that he is willing to pay the price of success to attain distinction.

Don’t worry about your individual numbers. Worry about the team. If the team is successful, each of you will be successful, too.

Truly great people in history never wanted to be great for themselves. All they wanted was the chance to do good for others and be close to God.

If you ever dreamed of playing for millions around the world, now is your chance.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

But there was one other thing that the grown-ups also knew, and it was this: that however small the chance might be of striking lucky, the chance is there. The chance had to be there.

It’s a mistake not to give people a chance to learn to depend on themselves while they are young.

We all have the chance to create a world where extreme poverty is the exception rather than the rule.

Every day brings a chance to live free of regret and with as much joy, fun, and laughter as you can stand.

I will prepare and some day my chance will come.