“I haven't a particle of confidence in a man who has no redeeming petty vices whatsoever.”
“He hadn’t a single redeeming vice.”
“A man must have vices, expensive ones if possible. Otherwise when he reaches old age he will have nothing to be redeemed from.”
“Money is the product of virtue, but it will not give you virtue and it will not redeem your vices”
“He has played some outstanding innings in the past, and I've got no [sic] confidence whatsoever that he'll come back and play very well in the near future.”
“One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.”