A life isn’t significant except for its impact on other lives.
A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.
Life is not a spectator sport. If you’re going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on, in my opinion you’re wasting your life.
Above anything else, I hate to lose.
I am not concerned with being liked or disliked. I am concerned with being respected.
I guess you’d call me an independent, since I’ve never identified myself with one party or another in politics. I always decide my vote by taking as careful a look as I can at the actual candidates and issues themselves, no matter what the party label.
The most luxurious possession, the richest treasure anybody has, is his personal dignity.
Baseball is like a poker game. Nobody wants to quit when he’s losing; nobody wants you to quit when you’re ahead.
Life is not a spectator sport.
How you played in yesterday’s game is all that counts.
The right of every American to first-class citizenship is the most important issue of our time.
At the beginning of the World Series of 1947, I experienced a completely new emotion when the National Anthem was played. This time, I thought, it is being played for me, as much as for anyone else.
The many of us who attain what we may and forget those who help us along the line we’ve got to remember that there are so many others to pull along the way. The farther they go, the further we all go.