Sportsmanship and easygoing methods are all right, but it is the prospect of a hot fight that brings out the crowds.

No club that wins a pennant once is an outstanding club. One which bunches two pennants is a good club. But a team which can win three in a row really achieves greatness.

One small breeze doesn't make a wind storm.

The way to get a ball past (Honus) Wagner is to hit it eight feet over his head.

With my team I am an absolute czar. My men know it. I order plays and they obey. If the don't, I fine them.

You think the greatest thing in the whole world would be to become a baseball player - if best things already happened, what's next?

If I had to pick the greatest team player in baseball today-and I have some of the greats on my own club-I would have to pick Pie Traynor.