Show me a good sportsman and I'll show you a player I'm looking to trade.

I never did say that you can't be a nice guy and win. I said that if I was playing third base and my mother rounded third with the winning run, I'd trip her up.

You don't save a pitcher for tomorrow. Tomorrow it may rain.

This guy don't come to the ballpark to beat you. He comes to beat you bad. This (Jackie) Robinson, he plays a ton.

Buy a steak for a player on another club after the game, but don't even speak to him on the field. Get out there and beat them to death.

Some guys are admired for coming to play, as the saying goes. I prefer those who come to kill.

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