Branch Rickey once said of me that I was a man with an infinite capacity for immediately making a bad thing worse.

I believe in rules. Sure I do. If there weren't any rules, how could you break them?

What are we at the park for except to win? I'd trip my mother. I'd help her up, brusher her off, tell her I'm sorry. But mother don't make it to third.

What are we out at the park for except to win?

It's possible to spend money anywhere in the world if you put your mind to it, something I proved conclusively by running up huge debts in Cincinnati.

There are only five things you can do in baseball - run, throw, catch, hit and hit with power.

Give me some scratching, diving, hungry ballplayers who come to kill you.