If you want to live a long time, don't fool with nothing old but money, nothing big but a bank roll, nothing black but a Cadillac, nothing over twenty-two years, nothing that weighs over 130. If you do, you're in trouble. 'Cause when you're getting old and your cells gettin' low, you'll need a Delco battery to boost ya.

I don't generally like running. I believe in training by rising gently up and down from the bench.

It's funny what a few no-hitters do for a body.

The Crawfords played everywhere, in every ballpark. And we won, won like we invented the game.

I got a curve so sneaky it might be your daddy.

Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way.

I ain't ever had a job, I just always played baseball.