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 don't need to know where the green is. Where is the golf course?

If it wasn't for baseball, I'd be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery.

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.

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

It's hard to beat a person that never gives up.

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