I didn't mean to hit the umpire with the dirt, but I did mean to hit that bastard in the stands.

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

I'd give a year of my life if I could hit a homerun on opening day of this great new park.

I swing big, with everything I've got. I hit big or I miss big. I like to live as big as I can.

A man ought to get all he can earn. A man who knows he's making money for other people ought to get some of the profit he brings in. Don't make any difference if it's baseball or a bank or a vaudeville show. It's business, I tell you. There ain't no sentiment to it. Forget that stuff.

Love the game of baseball and baseball will love you.

I thank heaven we have had baseball in this world... the kids... our national pastime.