In the olden days, the umpire didn't have to take any courses in mind reading. The pitcher told you he was going to throw at you.

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

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.

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.

In the olden days, the umpire didn't have to take any courses in mind reading. The pitcher told you he was going to throw at you.

Five runs ahead and he'd knock in all the runs I could ask for. One run behind and he was going to kill me.

I never questioned the integrity of an umpire. Their eyesight, yes.