- On working with Jackie Robinson: It helped make me a better, more enlightened man, and it helped me to have a future in baseball as a manager because later on I was going to have to manage fellows like Felipe Alou, Maury Wills, Henry Aaron, and plenty of other black players.
- Roy Campanella took my place. That was the biggest contribution I ever made [to baseball]. (on ending his major-league playing career in 1948, with a .240 career batting average)
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