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.

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

There is only one way to pitch to Musial - under the plate.

I made a game effort to argue but two things were against me: the umpires and the rules.

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

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