This ain't fun. But you watch me, I'll get it done.

Life is not a spectator sport. If you're going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on, in my opinion you're wasting your life.

Above anything else, I hate to lose.

The way I figured it, I was even with baseball and baseball with me. The game had done much for me, and I had done much for it.

A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.

Pop flies, in a sense, are just a diversion for a second baseman. Grounders are his stock trade.

Baseball is like a poker game. Nobody wants to quit when he's losing; nobody wants you to quit when you're ahead.