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

Heroes get remembered, but legends never die.

The most important thing that a young athlete must do it pick the right sport. Not one that they like just a little bit, but one that they love. Because,if they don't really love their sport, they won't work as hard as they should. Me? I loved to hit.

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

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

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

The curve and the fast one are important; the change of pace and the other trick deliveries are great but they're not worth a plugged nickel unless you have control to go along with them. And by control I don't mean the ability to put the ball over the plate somewhere between the shoulders and knees. I mean the ability to hit a three-inch target nine times out of ten, the sort of control that lets you put the ball in the exact spot you want it, and to play a corner to the split fraction of an inch.