If I'd just tried for them dinky singles I could've batted around .600.

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

Baseball changes through the years. It gets milder.

The termites have got me.

How to hit home runs: I swing as hard as I can, and I try to swing right through the ball... The harder you grip the bat, the more you can swing it through the ball, and the farther the ball will go. I swing big, with everything I've got. I hit big or I miss big. I like to live as big as I can.

I don't need to know where the green is. Where is the golf course?

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