Heroes get remembered, but legends never die.

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.

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 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.

Aw, everybody knows that game, the day I hit the homer off ole Charlie Root there in Wrigley Field, the day October first, the third game of that thirty-two World Series. But right now I want to settle all arguments. I didn't exactly point to any spot, like the flagpole. Anyway, I didn't mean to, I just sorta waved at the whole fence, but that was foolish enough. All I wanted to do was give that thing a ride... outta the park... anywhere.

All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.