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.

As soon as I got out there I felt a strange relationship with the pitcher's mound. It was as if I'd been born out there. Pitching just felt like the most natural thing in the world. Striking out batters was easy.

The way a team plays as a whole determines its success.

Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.

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

I thank heaven we have had baseball in this world... the kids... our national pastime.

You just can't beat the person who never gives up.