A part of control is learning to correct your own weaknesses. The person doesn't live who was born with everything. Sometimes he has one weak point, generally he has several. The first thing is to know your faults. And then take on a systematic plan of correcting them. You know the old saying about a chain only being as strong as its weakest link. The same can be said in the chain of skills a man forges.

What I am, what I have, what I am going to leave behind me - all this I owe to the game of baseball.

Baseball is the greatest game in the world and deserves the best you can give it.

I said I'm going to hit the next one right over the flagpole. God must have been with me.

If it wasn't for baseball, I'd be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery.

I hear the cheers when they roared and the jeers when they echoed.

What the hell difference does it make?