Don't be afraid to take advice. There's always something new to learn.

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

If it wasn't for baseball, I'd be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery. I have the same violent temper my father and older brother had. Both died of injuries from street fights in Baltimore, fights begun by flare-ups of their tempers.

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.

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.

(Ty) Cobb is a prick. But he sure can hit. God Almighty, that man can hit.

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