The Babe is one fellow, and I'm another and I could never be exactly like him. I don't try, I just go on as I am in my own right.

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.

When you have a wonderful mother-in-law who takes sides with you in squabbles with her own daughter - that's something.

I may have had a tough break, but I have an awful lot to live for.

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.

There is no room in baseball for discrimination. It is our national pastime and a game for all.

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.