Heroes get remembered, but legends never die.

The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

I'll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They're too much fun.

Baseball is the greatest game in the world and deserves the best you can give it.

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

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

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.