We were mighty short of infielders in those days

The ballplayer who loses his head, who can't keep his cool, is worse than no ballplayer at all.

I'm not a headline guy. I know that as long as I was following Ruth to the plate I could have stood on my head and no one would have known the difference.

Fans, for the past two weeks you have been reading about a bad break I got. Yet today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.

I love to win, but I love to lose almost as much. I love the thrill of victory, and I also love the challenge of defeat.

You don t get the breaks unless you play with the team instead of against it.

What are you going to do? Admit to yourself that the pitchers have you on the point of surrender? You can't do that. You must make yourself think that the pitchers are just as good as they always have been or just as bad.