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

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.

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

And luck? I've always said about Dizzy Dean that if the roof fell in and Diz was sitting in the middle of the room, everybody else would be buried in the debris and a gumdrop would drop into his mouth.

When you're in professional sports, winning is the only thing that matters.

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

It is decidedly not true that 'nice guys finish last'.