(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.

Second base is anything but magic. If it's anything at all, it's speed, sureness with your hands and lots of hard work.

On October 19, 1949, I got a telephone call from the Philadelphia (A's) front office informing me I had been traded to the White Sox for Joe Tipton. I was surprised and hurt.

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.

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

(Jim) Landis is such a good player because he plays every day as if he expects to be sent to the minors next week.

On two legs, Mickey Mantle would have been the greatest ballplayer who ever lived.