All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.

"I'm going over the valley." (Dying from throat cancer, his doctor found him wandering around his room, asked him where was he going?)

What the hell has (Herbert) Hoover got to do with it? Anyway, I had a better year than he did.

Who is richer? The man who is seen, but cannot see? Or the man who is not being seen, but can see?

How about a little noise. How do you expect a man to putt?

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.

Aw, everybody knows that game, the day I hit the homer off ole Charlie Root there in Wrigley Field, the day October first, the third game of that thirty-two World Series. But right now I want to settle all arguments. I didn't exactly point to any spot, like the flagpole. Anyway, I didn't mean to, I just sorta waved at the whole fence, but that was foolish enough. All I wanted to do was give that thing a ride... outta the park... anywhere.