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

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

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.

I learned early to drink beer, wine and whiskey. And I think I was about 5 when I first chewed tobacco.

I'd play for half my salary if I could hit in this dump (Wrigley Field) all the time.

Love the game of baseball and baseball will love you.