We won (the pennant) because we've got a superior ball club. Not many stars perhaps, but the kind of team that always plays well together.

If a ballplayer is satisfied, he's going to slip. You have to keep fighting to improve.

We won (the pennant) because we've got a superior ball club. Not many stars perhaps, but the kind of team that always plays well together.

No one had to tell me I was never going to be a home run hitter. I was hitting the same ball as the rest of the players, but when the big guys cracked one, it went out of the park. Mine went out of the infield.

(Doc) Cramer told me I was hitting too much off the front foot and that I wasn't using the right kind of bat. I had been using a long, skinny stick and Cramer got me a thicker one.

We really had baseball in the family. Even that little habit I've got of chewing tobacco on the ball field sort of comes from my dad.

All small men, all non-power hitters, must learn to bunt well. It's half your game.