Every Strike is one step closer to a Home Run

I won't be happy until we have every boy in America between the ages of six and sixteen wearing a glove and swinging a bat.

I learned early to drink beer, wine and whiskey. And I think I was about 5 when I first chewed tobacco.

You know this baseball game of ours comes up from the youth - that means the boys. And after you've been a boy, and grow up to know how to play ball, then you come to the boys you see representing themselves today in our national pastime.

Yesterday's home runs don't win today's games.

A man ought to get all he can earn. A man who knows he's making money for other people ought to get some of the profit he brings in. Don't make any difference if it's baseball or a bank or a vaudeville show. It's business, I tell you. There ain't no sentiment to it. Forget that stuff.

The only real game, I think, in the world is baseball.